-
horizontal line
where the
waist is narrowest, or to the
general appearance of the
waist.
Because of this and
because the
waist is
often synonymous with...
- cap or caul of pearls. Genoa, c. 1626. Marie-Louise de T****is
wears a
short-
waisted gown with a sash over a
tabbed bodice with a long
stomacher and matching...
- The
waist–hip
ratio or
waist-to-hip
ratio (WHR) is the
dimensionless ratio of the cir****ference of the
waist to that of the hips. This is
calculated as...
- Campus, Four Star, Curlee, Towncraft, and
Oxford Clothes produced short-
waisted gabardine jackets,
sometimes reversible,
commonly known as "Ricky jackets"...
- A high-rise or high-
waisted garment is one
designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips,
usually at
least 8
centimetres (3 inches)
higher than...
- (>1 in.) the
natural waist. Natural: A
horizontal waistline that
falls at the
natural waist and
tends to make the
wearer seem
shorter by
visually dividing...
- knit-work,
flourished with silver. By the 17th century,
doublets were
short-
waisted. A
typical sleeve of this
period was full and
slashed to show the shirt...
-
Waist chop or
waist cutting (simplified Chinese: 腰斩;
traditional Chinese: 腰斬; pinyin: Yāo zhǎn), also
known as
cutting in two at the
waist, was a form...
-
different parts of Europe. In the
German states and Bohemia,
gowns remained short-
waisted, tight-laced but
without corsets or stays. The open-fronted gown laced...
-
Evening Herald. Syracuse.
March 1893.
Still of
course the
short-
waisted gowns mean
short-
waisted corsets and
those ladies who wish to be in the real absolute...
