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|author= Charles T. Abbott |title=The Cliff Dweller's Daughter, 1899, page 249 |date= 1899 |publisher= F. Tennyson Neely |url= https://archive.org/details/cliffdwellersda00abbogoog/page/n242/mode/2up?q=girdle+string&view=theater}}</ref>

As attire for a dancer it is known from 1910 when [[Elbert Hubbard]] wrote: "Down in New York a girl gave a [[Dance of the Seven Veils | Salome dance]] in a G string and sandals"<ref>{{citation |title=The Philistine | date=April 1910 |url=https://archive.org/details/philistineaperi02nygoog/page/n150/mode/2up?q=%22g-string%22&view=theater}}</ref> and as beach wear from 1921

<ref>{{citation|title=Fringe sewed on beach queens who lack conscience |journal=The Coronado Strand

}}</ref>.

|___location=Coronado, Ca.|date=August 20, 1921|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CJ19210820.2.8

|quote=The women police go armed with a needle and thread and when a girl is discovered tastily clad in a gee string and a light sprinkling of tan, the coppess takes her to one side and sews on a fringe.}}</ref>.

== History ==