<P> Garters are articles of clothing: narrow bands of fabric fastened about the leg, used to keep up stockings, and sometimes socks . In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the stocking from slipping . The advent of elastic has made them less necessary from this functional standpoint, although they are still often worn for fashion . Garters have been widely worn by men and women, depending on fashion trends . </P> <P> In Elizabethan fashions, men wore garters with their hose, and colourful garters were an object of display . In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "cross braced" garters, as worn by the character Malvolio, are an object of some derision . In male fashion, a type of garter for holding up socks has continued as a part of male dress up to the present, although its use may be considered somewhat archaic . </P>

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