The Pooh Dictionary : braces

[The Pooh Dictionary]
Braces, noun: 1 sort of straps slung over your shoulders that, being attached to your trousers, keep them from falling down. 2 paradoxically, any sort of clothing that you find so exciting you want to fall down.

Piglet wasn't listening, he was so agog at the thought of seeing Christopher Robin's blue braces again. He had only seen them once before, when he was much younger, and, being a little over-excited by them, had had to go to bed half an hour earlier than usual; and he had always wondered since if they were really as blue and as bracing as he had thought them to be