The camisk is a rectangle of cloth, with a hole cut for the head,
rather
like a poncho. The edges are commonly folded and stitched to
prevent raveling...The camisk, I am told, normally falls to the
knees...was at one time commonly belted with a chain. However, the
camisks that I have personally seen, and those we were given, were
belted with a long, thin strap of leather binding fiber. This passes
once
around the body, and then again, and then is tied, snugly over the
right hip.
-Captive of Gor, pg 64
The common camisk is a simple rectangle of cloth, containing, in
its
center, a circular opening. The garment is drawn on by the girl
over
her head and down upon her shoulders; it is worn, thus, like a poncho;
it is commonly belted with binding fiber or a bit of light chain,
something with which the girl may be secured, if the master wishes.
-Guardsman of Gor, pg 107
Camisk, Turian
It is rather like an inverted "T," the bar of the "T" having beveled
edges. It passes from he girl's throat, in front of her body, between
her
legs, and is then lifted, pulled tight, and wrapped about the thighs.
Its
single cord fastens the garment behind the girl's neck, behind her
back and then, after passing about her body once or twice, ties
in
front. It conceals her brand but exposes her back....worn tightly.
-Captive of Gor, pg 160
Also described in Guardsman of Gor pg 107
Iron Belt
She also wore an iron belt. This belt consisted of two major pieces;
one was a rounded, fitted curve barlike waistband, flattened at
the
ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the
woman and looking forward, had a heavy semi-circular ring, or staple,
welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistband, looking
forward, had a slot in it which fitted over the staple; the other
major
portion of this belt consisted of a curved band of flat, shaped
iron; one
end of this flat band was curved about, and closed about, the barlike
waistband in the front; this produces a hinge; the flat, U-shaped
strap
of iron swings on this hinge; on the other end of flat band of iron
is a
slot; it fits over the same staple as the slot in the flattened
end on the
left side of the barlike waistband...The waistband is closed about
her,
the left side, its slot penetrated by the staple, this keeping the
parts of
the belt in place. The whole apparatus is then locked on her, the
tongue of a padlock thrust through the staple, the lock then snapped
shut.
-Kajira of Gor, pg 103
Miscellaneous
There are many types of slave garments of course, other than such
obvious categories as tunics, camisks and Ta-Teeras. Pleasure
silks, in all varieties, and swirling diaphanous dancing silks might
be
mentioned. The leathers forced on the slave maidens of the Wagon
Peoples (Koora, Curla, Chatka & Kalmak)....
-Guardsman of Gor, pp 107-108
Sirik
...a light chain favored for female slaves by many Gorean masters;
it
consists of a Turian-type collar, a loose, rounded circle of steel,
to
which a light, gleaming chain is attached; should the girl stand,
the
chain, dangling from her collar, falls to the floor; it is about
ten or
twelve inches longer than is required to reach from her collar to
her
ankles; to this chain, at the natural fall of her wrists, is attached
a pair
of slave bracelets; at the end of the chain there is attached another
device, a set of linked ankle rings, which, when closed about her
ankles, lifts a portion of the slack chain from the floor;...perhaps
it
should be added that the slave bracelets and the ankle rings may
be
removed from the chain and used separately, this also, of course,
permits the Sirik to function as a slave leash.
-Nomads of Gor, pg 42
Slave Silk
Too, Ina wore a snatch of diaphanous yellow silk....in most paga
taverns, of course, the girls are silked. Usually it is only in
the
cheapest and lowest of taverns that the girls serve naked....Slave
silk,
and certainly that sort which is commonly worn in paga taverns and
upon occasion in brothels, when the girls are permitted clothing
there,
is generally diaphanous.
-Dancer of Gor, pg 224
There are a large number of ways in which slave silk is worn. It
can be
worn, for example, on the shoulder or off the shoulder, with high
necklines or plunging necklines, in open or closed garments, tightly
or flowingly, and in various lengths. Sometimes it is put on the
girl
only in halters and G-strings, or mere G-strings...the tying of
slave
girdles, with such silk, and otherwise, to emphasize the girl's
figure
and make clear her bondage, is an art in itself. Often, too, and
as
usually in paga taverns, it is worn in brief tunics. Most of these
are
partable or wraparound tunics. Such may be removed gracefully...like
some regular slave tunics, have a disrobing loop, usually at the
left
shoulder...a tug on the disrobing loop drops the tunic to the girl's
ankles...
-Dancer of Gor, pg 225
She was clad in in a snatch of yellow slave silk.....
-Vagabond of Gor, pg. 400
Her body was ill concealed, clothed, if such be the word, in a bit
of
open-sided, diaphanous slave silk, suitable for a casual lifting
aside.
It was a slave garment, and would have well mocked the modesty of
even a bond girl.
-Vagabond of Gor, pg. 405
Slave Strip
To each, on the furs, there was chained, by the left ankle, a
bare-breasted girl about whose waist there was knotted a scarlet
cord,
in which was thrust a long, narrow rectangle of red silk. About
their
throats were matching red-enameled collars.
-Assassin of Gor, pg.88
Slave Tunic
Most common Gorean garment for a slave... invariably sleeveless
and, usually has a deep plunging neckline....may be of a great variety
of materials, from rich satins and silks to thin, form-revealing,
clinging
rep-cloth.
-Guardsman of Gor, pg 107
...she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in
the
northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord
that
served her as a belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar,
yellow enameled over steel.
-Assassin of Gor, pg.7
The meal was served by slave girls in white tunics, each wearing
a
white-enameled collar. These would be girls in training, some of
them
perhaps White Silk Girls, being accustomed to the routines and
techniques of serving at table.
-Assassin of Gor, pg.88
One of those doors opened and a luscious, dark-haired slave
emerged, clad in a light brown tunic.
-Vagabond of Gor, pg. 402
She was an exciting brunet, in a short tunic of diaphanous silk.
-Magicians of Gor, pg. 121
I ducked under a rope of tiny rep-cloth slave tunics, of various
solid
colors...
-Vagabond of Gor, pg. 461
It was a sleeveless, pullover tunic of brown rep cloth. It was
generously notched on both sides at the hem, which touch
guarantees an additional baring of its occupant's flanks.
-Magicians of Gor, pg. 21
I saw a slave girl pass, in a brief, brown tunic, her back straight,
her
beauty protestingly full within her tiny, tight garment, balancing
a jar
on her head with one hand.
-Magicians of Gor, pg. 10
...tunics of the wool of the bounding hurt one in silk.
-Magicians of Gor, pg. 215
She wore a brief tunic of white rep-cloth.
-Magicians of Gor, pg. 292
It was a tunic resembling that of a state slave....had been brief,
sleeveless and gray, slashed to the waist.
-Magicians of Gor, pg 340
Ta-Teera
a scrap of rag, outrageously brief, so scandalous, so shameful, fit
only
for a slave girl...
-Slave Girl of Gor, pg 81
One of the most exciting slave garments...sometimes called the slave
rag...analogous to the tunic, but it is little more, and intentionally
so,
than a rag or rags...
-Guardsman of Gor, pg 107
Slave Garments of the Wagon People
Clad Kajir
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear
four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied
about the
waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits
over the
cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside,
passes over the cord in the back; the Chatka is drawn tight; the
Kalmak is then donned; it is a short, open, sleeveless vest of black
leather; lastly the Koora, a strip of red cloth, matching the Curla,
is
wound about the head, to hold the hair back, for slave women, among
the Wagon People are not permitted to braid, or otherwise dress
their
hair; it must be, save for the koora, worn loose.
-Nomads of Gor, pg. 30 Also described in Slave Girl of Gor, pp.
328-329
She wore a curla and chatka of yellow silk. The curla was a rope
of
twisted, yellow silk tied snugly about her belly and knotted, loosely,
at
the left hip. The chatka, about four feet in length, folded narrowly,
to a
width of some inches, was thrust over the curla in front, taken
between
her legs and thrust behind and over the curla in back. It was drawn
snugly tight.
-Beasts of Gor, pg 343
Her hair was drawn back behind her head and tied there with a yellow
cord....a black cord was knotted about her waist. Tucked over this
cord in front was a long strip, some seven inches wide, of heavy,
opaque, yellow cloth. It then passed under her body and was pulled
up, snugly, and thrust over the cord in the back. The front and
back
ends of this cloth hung evenly, and fell about midway between her
knees and ankles. The effect was much like that of the curla and
chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon
peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that
the
curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip,
was of
cloth and yellow, not of black leather....the cord binding her hair
was
quite different from the koora, the red band of cloth commonly used
to
confine the hair of the southern slave....
-Renegades of Gor, pg 121
For a Kajirus--save for the work chains, to be clad Kajir means to
wear
the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather.
-Nomads of Gor, pg. 30