There was a bit of a '70s theme, but the main connections in these pieces were the fitted waists, and fabrications of silk and viscose. |
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The result is that the typical female form is almost straight, in contrast to the narrow waists and curves of the 1950s woman. |
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They learn to spin the hoop around their knees, to get it back up to their waists, to spin around their chests, necks and above their heads. |
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Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny. |
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Oh and it has also been pointed out to me that this shirt will only look good on people with super skinny waists like this model here. |
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Boxfresh's tracky bottom styles in brown wool suiting or navy rubberised cotton have snug elasticated waists. |
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Both are very slimming through the hips, and the elastic waists are unnoticeable under a top. |
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A belt was wrapped around their waists, bearing a pair of scabbards and two small, pentagonal shields. |
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Hair thinning, waists thickening, faces falling, they are held up to us as figures of fun. |
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They thought it was the tide but within minutes they were up to their waists in water and struggling to stay afloat. |
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By the 1830s dresses included printed cottons with high tucked waists and gigot sleeves. |
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After a journey of about ten minutes we could see ahead of us about a dozen people standing up to their waists in water. |
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So they made us put stones in our shoes and ropes around our waists which lacerated our skin. |
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He has one of those narrow, washboard waists that most of us can only dream about. |
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In their place were perms and dyes, Michelin waists, plump upper arms, and 40-something, careworn faces. |
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The women tied grass and leaves from a string round their waists, before there were gina-ginas. |
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The same children who yesterday were in anoraks and mittens now play football in shorts, football jerseys tied around their waists. |
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Then came the lead weights around our waists, the heavy oxygen cylinders, the masks, and the huge flippers for our feet. |
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This season that means we are talking about contrasts and antitheses, wide skirts and narrow waists, silk and tweed, short skirts and high boots. |
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Amelia wore pretty dresses with full skirts and small waists with short jackets and fanned pumps. |
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Bizarre belts Last year it was all about studded leather belts around rock chic waists. |
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How I manage is buy things with either elastic waists or things that have overblouses. |
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How lovely to think that even those with 24-inch waists will be forced to cover them up from now on. |
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Women with waists measuring 35 inches or greater are considered to be at elevated risk. |
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Was all that consciousness-raising we did in the 1970s to be lost in a new mood of post-feminist consciousness plummeting below our waists? |
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Those with 26 and 28 inch waists will also be classed as the male equivalent of a female size zero and will not be allowed to take part. |
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They wielded a pistol in each hand as calmly and skillfully as a butcher wielded a cleaver and had spare ammo clips around their waists. |
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Paper wasps are longer, thinner, and more smooth and shiny than honey bees and have longer, narrower waists than do bees. |
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In connection to chaps, they are made with exceptional fit to emphasize the thighs and waists of women. |
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Strapless or V-neck tops, corsets and kimonos with shaped waists fit the bill, while ruched or shirred details can also help create shape and a lean line. |
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Ancient statues have been found of men and women with 10-inch waists! |
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Kaerin inspected the men, each one was wearing shiny silver coloured plate armour, each one had a shield strapped to their back and a long sword buckled at their waists. |
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Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right. |
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Gone were the padded peplum jackets known as Bar, the cinched waists, and by and large the expansive skirts. |
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The women of the city donned their abayas, the fabric drawn in around their waists. |
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Women with oiled and sheeny hair, combs thrust through their buns and intricate embroidered aprons tied round their waists, thronged the riverside bazaar. |
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They make mats such as this one, which they tie around their waists while working or travelling, and use to sit on to protect their loincloths. |
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And they squeezed each other's backs and waists and snivelled. |
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Nipped-in jackets, fitted dresses, corseted, tight waists, capes and boleros... and, above all, black worked in all variations. |
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These peoples also wore leather belts around their waists, and felted woolen caps kept their heads warm. |
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Graziers tell stories of good years when the grass is up to their waists, but at the moment, only patchy areas have enough rain to put a nice bit of grass on the ground. |
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Puffed sleeves, tight waists and duscreet necklines in keeping with the moral standards of the era. |
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The two groups form dragons by holding on to one another's waists in a long line. |
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According to this witness, they were all tied to each other by a rope at their waists and forced to carry looted goods. |
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During such lengthy waists, victims and witnesses can become fearful and apprehensive, and accused persons may commit more crimes. |
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Remove drawstrings from the hoods, waists and bottoms of children's jackets and other garments. |
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In a more stable workspace, user waists less time interpretring data, can issue his choices and get answers more rapidly. |
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Thick tweed, leather and lace enhanced décolletés and cleavage, further set off by nipped-in waists and ample hips. |
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By this means we are told that waists can be reduced, flat chests inflated, hips broadened and lungs strengthened, to say nothing of reducing weight. |
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Play up your figure with fitted tops, spaghetti-strap blouses and dresses, jackets with cinched waists and sleeveless tanks with round, high necklines. |
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This particular form of tailoring is tight and tiny, cut with soft, rounded shoulders, open necklines and small waists which are sometimes belted. |
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If we closed our eyes, we could almost see men with mutton-chop whiskers and stem expressions, and women with cinched waists and skirts with floor-sweeping trains. |
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Vests under the dinner jackets must have been uncomfortable to wear in the Indian heat, so the sahibs tied a bandana around their waists and began calling it a cummerbund. |
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The young women simply wrapped the sarongs around their waists. |
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They'd break pieces out and let it fall down to the beach, or some would have bags belted around their waists, one on each side of them to put the rock in. |
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Chests are bosomy, waists are tucked, and with impressive machines and gadgets, recording studios are able to make even the most off-key voice a pleasure to hear. |
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They flow over paunches and make no definite statements about waists. |
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Ants have one or two bumps at their thin waists called petioles. |
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One of the things we did in that study was to fit 200 children aged 10 to 13 with activity monitors, small things the size of pagers, which they wore around their waists. |
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The tone-on-tone shirts and nipped waists on ventless midnight blue jackets seemed more characteristic of a snappy Neapolitan than the sober gents of Milan. |
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If we think we bend forward from our waists, rather than from our hips, we create unnecessary tension and strain in our body, particularly in the lower back. |
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Haaf Netters stand up to their waists in tidal washes and spread their nets across the flow to catch whatever is being swept along. |
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For its beauty and benefits of hemp on the body, as you say, our very old who knew the ropes of hemp or string around their waists, for its soothing effect on the kidneys, they said. |
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Why were women told not to make the waists of their pants smaller? |
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In the late 1950s, the hula-hoop craze had millions, children and adults, stepping into plastic hoops and attempting to keep them revolving around their waists by swiveling their hips. |
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Poncho blouses and coats offered up a fresh new silhouette with square forms, cinched waists and geometric borders, fluidly draped in jersey-knit viscose or crêpe de soie. |
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I assume the authors of this claptrap think women of 67 are doing well to make fashion choices that don't involve beige and elasticated waists. |
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Marrying Royalty shouldn't mean a one way ticket to American Tan tights and elasticated waists. |
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There were flouncy skirts that began not from the waist but from way down and playful sheath dresses with peplum waists, our personal favourite. |
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Each group was a mix of boys and girls, and the boys and girls alike wore baggy jeans low on their waists, sneakers laced or unlaced, long T-shirts, baggy jackets. |
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Skirts barely over their lower regions and necklines down to their waists with about two inches of school tie just showing above. |
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Reminiscent of the 1940s or 1950s, retro two piece swimsuits with a bustier top, low necklines and high waists in panties are very popular. |
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It's where old ladies can still find elasticated waists, thermal vests and bunion-embracing Footglove wide-fit slip-ons. |
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The preferred female shape was curvy with wasp waists and wide skirts over many underskirts. |
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The military tailoring, in olive cotton twill and navy wool, with nipped waists and charmeuse, recalled his early designs. |
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The test group following the Curves plan lost an average of two inches from their hips and three inches from their waists, while showing a 21 percent improvement in strength and a seven percent increase in aerobic capacity. |
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They wore gowns of petal pink bella chiffon with twist fronts, sweetheart necklines and crystal-beaded appliques accenting the waists and straps. |
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Choose easy-to-remove clothing, such as velcro closings or elastic waists. |
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Raf Simons's nipped waists displayed a range of Sixties references. |
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In 2007, Medair and Tearfund staff spent hours trekking through swamps that rose as high as their waists in order to provide emergency health care to isolated villages. |
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I designed clothes for flowerlike women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts. |
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Scots' bulging waists have led to a sales boom for one bedmaker, whose wooden frames can even withstand the weight of a family car. |
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I watched as they started out, the monks pulling their robes right up around them, right up beyond their waists, and the horses all bravely plunging into the water and swimming away across to the other side. |
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The natives also diverted the nearby Patacancha river to flood the plain, soon causing the cavalry to be wallowing in mud up to the horses waists. |
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With their high rise waists and widened leg, these jeans can create the illusion of making thin legs more pronounced and larger legs more slender. |
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Visitors are always welcome: the children love the contact, wanting to be touched and held, reaching for hands to hold and wrapping their arms around waists and legs. |
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Their flesh is firm as a plum, their smooth tanned waists, Lit through the fluttered leaves above their heads, Are rubbed and cinctured with this morning's bangles. |
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It's belted waists and pencil skirts again, which means the ghastly panty-girdles and roll-ons have returned, only this time they're called control knickers. |
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Remember, elasticised waists are a no-no, as is anything tightly fitted. |
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