It’s a real thing! Only recently pressed into service to describe ‘our’ new kipper-faced PM. Previously a perfectly unremarkable girder-structure form:
PS: when I was at primary school, a common source of ribald laughter amongst the boys was the medical supports which so many of our fathers had to wear: working men with ruptured belly-musculature because of the physically very hard work that they did habitually. The big laugh-word amongst we silly boys, which was also the common term for these medical supports, was ‘truss’, also known as rupture-suspenders. Will Liz be equal to the job? Don’t bet on it…