For some, it's ruthless management, exposed midriffs, and a lifetime of dance rehearsals.
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They were surprised to see women wearing short shorts, or with their midriffs exposed.
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The Indianapolis Colts cheerleaders now wear less revealing uniforms, which show no bare midriffs.
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It's a place where you're likely to see midriffs and men in pink button-downs.
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He hated the bare midriffs, the see-through skirts, and the garments with too much volume.
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The ISU instituted " The Katarina Rule," which dictated that women's hips, midriffs, and butt were covered.
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The top and bottom of the reels are bare, like torsos with shoulders and midriffs exposed.
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The three ladies are nearly matching in their sports bras and black leggings, while baring their fit midriffs.
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Sheer outfits have since become the go-to daring style, but bare midriffs might be making a comeback.
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In it, the three ladies were nearly matching in sports bras and black leggings, while baring their fit midriffs.
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From slinky, spaghetti-strap tanks and slip dresses to bare shoulders and midriffs, the ventilation was at peak performance.
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The stark bare shoulders and midriffs at Haider Ackermann and Saint Laurent were smart graphic plays around negative space.
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"Adults, when they think of teen sexual culture, they see little more than a blur of bare midriffs," Albert said.
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In the 2000s, celebrities were constantly photographed wearing clothes that showcased their midriffs, the area between the chest and waist.
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When I first got there, copies of American Cosmo arrived at the newsstands sporting black marker scribbles over bare midriffs.
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My Instagram feed has already been serving a higher amount of bare midriffs from friends who celebrated during the first weekend.
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At a time when maternity clothes were made primarily to conceal bulging midriffs, she could find nothing she liked in stores.
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At the time, celebrities were constantly photographed wearing clothes that showcased their midriffs, or the area between the chest and waist.
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On August 16, Everett City Council passed two ordinances effectively banning bare midriffs, exposed shoulders, shorts, and bikinis in quick serve restaurants.
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Boudoir influences pervaded with sheer blouses and plumes of feathers that fluttered off party girl capes, while diamanté buckle-belts hung across midriffs.
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People daubed themselves in red and white facepaint, wrapped St. George's flags around their midriffs and roared a primal roar of utter Englishness.
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Players' tops must cover their midriffs while they are standing still, and shorts or briefs must have at least a one-inch inseam.
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During its run, "Sex and the City" featured so many unique ways of styling clothing, from mismatched shoes to belts over bare midriffs.
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Many are far less visible — and therefore that much more insidious — than the censor covering up the midriffs in Cosmo with his pen.
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But, while there are fewer exposed midriffs and tanned legs this time around, there's still a private Bardot-esque sensuality that underpins the look.
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Each shopping bag–toting woman is transfixed on one thing: Turtle, the round and fluffy dirtbag catcalling women and grazing their midriffs with his slimy hands.
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She showed me a photo of herself and Daryl K., a fashion designer, doing handstands on the scaffolding outside of Indochine a decade ago, midriffs bared.
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Though not a proposition many men are likely to embrace, the bared midriffs featured throughout the show were Ms. Kawakubo's nod to an often overlooked erogenous zone.
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A flimsy halter baby-doll dress, tie-dye T-shirts, bare midriffs and belly chains in a tequila sunrise palette, however, seemed to get lost in translation.
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But this video was filmed at a historic site in Saudi Arabia, where women are expected to dress modestly, with no bare midriffs or knees and uncovered heads.
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They trim the bezels down to nothing and strive to make those machines as thin as possible while 73-inch laptops keep their big chins and thick midriffs.
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Just two weeks ago, Chinese women were taking to their social media accounts to post pics of their skinny midriffs that can be hidden behind an A4 sheet paper.
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For Alka-Seltzer, he made quick cuts from round bellies to toned midriffs in the "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" commercial, a unique visual for the time.
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For Alka-Seltzer, he made quick cuts from round bellies to toned midriffs in the "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In" commercial, a unique visual for the time.
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Christian women, like the swimwear designer Jessica Rey, may express their vision of modesty by eschewing bikinis in favor of bathing suits that expose their legs but cover their midriffs.
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The series includes women who bare midriffs in tailored crop tops; women with visible tattoos; women with twinned, voluminous, gravity-defying Afros; women wearing extensions or weaves; women with long Senegalese twists.
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In Crossroads, the male gaze is sometimes present — whenever Lucy, Kit, and Mimi are on-stage, the camera pans over their legs and midriffs, laid bare by tiny skirts and crop tops.
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The company's recent ad campaigns showing bare midriffs and legs, windblown hair, and suggestive poses by slim young dancers — have used sex as a marketing tool, lowering the lure to the prurient.
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The less-than-glamorous Inglewood Forum, where the awards took place last Sunday, was filled to the rafters with jailbait; midriffs bared, exposing belly rings their mothers no doubt signed waivers to procure.
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Kim, 38, and Khloé, 34, wore the most risqué lingerie of the bunch, with just bras and panties (and wings of course!) while Kendall, 22, Kylie, 21 and Kourtney all covered their midriffs.
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Bisexual pop star Halsey is on the cover of the September/October issue, and at the recent Midsummer Night's Dream Party at the Playboy Mansion, I spotted as many gay men flashing their midriffs as women were.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, Support The Girls stars Regina Hall as Lisa, general manager of Double Whammies, a "boobs, brews and big screens" sports bar where the waitresses are as friendly as their midriffs are bare.
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The Italian girls at the next table, around her own age or younger, looked right: with their Lycra shorts and white crop tops, their dancing, bare midriffs so flat and brown, veils of shining hair flying behind them when they turned.
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Necklines should be plunging, midriffs should be cropped, skirts should be as full as possible (all the better for infinitely GIF-able red carpet twirling moments), and a dress that combines any or all of the above is an obvious instant winner.
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Then, there are the murkier efforts: in January, Jaden Smith, the precocious son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, modelled women's wear for Louis Vuitton, leading advocates to wonder whether gender fluidity was simply the latest iteration of flat chests and bare midriffs.
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I'm cut in line by a swarthy 20003-year old year old with a black card and marine blue bandanna, surrounded by a gaggle of glitter and midriffs, who attempt to bribe a tank-topped blonde bartender with a full sleeve of a Japanese woodcut and a Pegasus.
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They wore skimpy two-piece outfits that exposed their midriffs, the four dancers almost identical, Andrea set off by what looked like a fur vest, plush and white, hanging open around her breasts, and by her hair, which wasn't gathered back like the others' but teased into a blond mane.
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True, as dressed by the costume designer Ann Roth in fake-fur midriffs and acid-washed shorts, she resembles one of the girls from "Girls" more than an actual canine, but Mr. Gurney's comedy rests on this critter acting almost as human as the humans, conversing easily with both the man who dotes on her and the woman who eyes her with frank distaste.
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So much of pop music in the early 2000s was designed to inspire joy and celebration in an orgy of glow sticks, writhing bodies, and bare midriffs (paralleling the golden days of early-90s house): From the soaring vocals to the blinding strobe lights; like the vodka Red Bulls that powered you all night and Eva Herzigova in the iconic 90s Wonderbra ads—this period in pop was all about the uplift.
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A student dress code was formulated for the 2007-08 school year.Dress Code Clarifications, Atlantic City High School, dated September 24, 2007. Accessed October 17, 2007. After 12 years, the school dropped their uniform policy, yet ACHS students are still restricted from a few garment types, such as bare midriffs, ripped jeans, leggings, and "durags".
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Billboard reviewed the video calling it "racy and awesomely retro, like "I'm a Slave 4 U" meets "Dirrty" – with BDSM costumes, bare midriffs and lots and lots of heavy breathing".Buerger, Megan (May 15, 2015). "Paris Hilton & Birdman's New Music Video Is a Warehouse Orgy Inspired by Madonna: Watch". Billboard. Retrieved on May 15, 2015.
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A bra bomb is a bomb worn by women suicide bombers. Hiding the explosives in a bra instead of a vest allows for the women to show their midriffs when searched. In 2007 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber had explosives hidden in her bra. She blew herself up outside the office of a Tamil minister.
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South Indian actresses such as Silk Smitha, Simran, Kiran Rathod, Namitha, Trisha Krishnan, Anushka Shetty, Shriya Saran, Sadha, Ileana D'Cruz, Kajal Aggarwal, Mumtaj, Taapsee Pannu, Shruti Hassan, Tamannaah, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nayanthara, Shwetha Menon, Mamta Mohandas etc., are known for their navel exposure. Actresses such as Ileana D'Cruz, Tamannaah,Shriya Saran,Trisha Krishnan etc., are known for exposing their slimmed-down midriffs in song sequences.
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He designed dresses with bare midriffs, sheer panels, and very short hemlines, and as early as 1962 was designing high- fashion plastic garments. In 1965, one of his dresses with a mesh midriff was chosen as the Dress of the Year and donated to the Fashion Museum, Bath, which in 2006 held a major retrospective show of his work.John Bates Fashion Designer exhibition at the Fashion Museum, Bath.
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California sheephead, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Male and female California sheepsheads have different color patterns and body shapes. Males are larger, with black tail and head sections, wide, reddish orange midriffs, red eyes, and fleshy forehead bumps. Female sheephead are dull pink with white undersides. Both sexes have white chins and large, protruding canine teeth that can pry hard-shelled animals from rocks or inflict nasty puncture wounds on skin divers.
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Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion; Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands Vol 7 Part 11: Polynesia Around 1930, the costumes changed yet again to be more revealing and more traditional. Hibiscus bark became the standard material for grass skirts, men no longer wore pants underneath, and women started showing their midriffs. The dress also changed according to type of musical accompaniment. For compositions using drums and membranophones, natural materials were used.
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Courrège's Spring 1964 collection established his impact on the fashion industry and named him the Space Age designer. The line consisted of "architecturally-sculpted, double-breasted coats with contrasting trim, well-tailored, sleeveless or short-sleeved minidresses with dropped waistlines and detailed welt seaming, and tunics worn with hipster pants". A notable look was the linear minidresses with revolutionary tailoring with cut-out panels that displayed waists, midriffs and backs. Courrège had strong beliefs within the liberation of fashion.
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After overcoming her initial shock, Lilia becomes drawn towards the dancers and drum music. The women are very different from Lilia as they wear colourful clothing, they are showing their midriffs, and they are dancing in a sensual manner to the drumbeat. After befriending the lead dancer, Folla (Monia Hichri), Lilia is convinced to start dancing in the cabaret club. While Lilia begins dancing nightly, she simultaneously begins a romantic relationship with Chokri, who is still unaware that Lilia is Salma's mother.
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After overcoming her initial shock, Lilia becomes drawn towards the dancers and drum music. The women are very different from Lilia: they wear colourful clothing, they are showing their midriffs, and they are dancing in a sensual manner to the drumbeat. After befriending the lead dancer, Folla (Monia Hichri), Lilia is convinced to start dancing in the cabaret club. While Lilia begins dancing nightly, she simultaneously begins a romantic relationship with Chokri, who is still unaware that Lilia is Selma's mother.
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Beginning in the late 1940s, school dress codes in the United States started to ban bare midriffs. Even today, many American secondary schools have dress codes dating back to the 1970s against attire that leaves the midriff exposed. An example of a test that some schools apply is to have the student raise her arms if her shirt just barely covers her midriff while her arms are down. If during this test the girl's navel is exposed as she raises her arms, then she will be prohibited from wearing that shirt to school anymore.
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Contestants may take turns dancing or posing before the audience, with the outcome decided either by crowd reaction or by judges' vote. In racier contests, participants may tear or crop their T-shirts to expose midriffs, cleavage, or the undersides of their breasts. Depending on local laws, participants may be allowed to remove their T-shirts or strip completely naked during their performance. The first known mention of the term Wet T-shirt contest in the press occurred in 1975 in The Palm Beach Post, describing the contest's appearance at New Orleans discotheques.
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Bakula joked "Did we run out of material for Jolene's skirt?" as Blalock wore the science-blue miniskirt in the style of that worn by Christine Chapel. The normal Enterprise costumes also underwent changes, with those worn by female members of the crew having a portion removed to reveal their midriffs. Original Series props such as phasers and PADDs were also created for the episode. Despite the mirror- Enterprise being destroyed in the first installment, during the second episode the standing sets were reused to represent the ISS Avenger.
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Although American teenage girls are more likely to wear shirts that reveal their midriffs, this kind of clothing is often banned in high schools and stores. It is also inappropriate to wear clothing that reveals the midriff in professional settings like places of work. The exposure of the male navel has not been as controversial nor as common, and is usually in the context of barechestedness. Exposure of the navel by females is commonly associated with the popularity of the bikini, of the crop top and low-rise clothing.
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Wartime production during World War II required vast amounts of cotton, silk, nylon, wool, leather, and rubber. In 1942, the United States War Production Board issued Regulation L-85, cutting the use of natural fibers in clothing and mandating a 10% reduction in the amount of fabric in women's beachwear.Bikini Introduced , This Day in History, History Channel To comply with the regulations, swimsuit manufacturers produced two-piece suits with bare midriffs. The fabric shortage continued for some time after the end of the war. Women's swimwear of the 1930s and 1940s incorporated increasing degrees of midriff exposure.
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Short bolero jackets, capelets, and dresses cut with fitted midriffs or seams below the bust increased the focus on breadth at the shoulder. By the late 1930s, emphasis was moving to the back, with halter necklines and high-necked but backless evening gowns with sleeves. Evening gowns with matching jackets were worn to the theatre, nightclubs, and elegant restaurants. Skirts remained at mid-calf length for day, but the end of the 1930s Paris designers were showing fuller skirts reaching just below the knee; this practical length (without the wasteful fullness) would remain in style for day dresses through the war years.
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Wartime production during World War II required vast amounts of cotton, silk, nylon, wool, leather, and rubber. In 1942, the United States War Production Board issued Regulation L-85, cutting the use of natural fibers in clothing and mandating a 10% reduction in the amount of fabric in women's beachwear. To comply with the regulations, swimsuit manufacturers removed skirt panels and other attachments, while increasing production of the two-piece swimsuit with bare midriffs. At the same time, demand for all swimwear declined as there was not much interest in going to the beach, especially in Europe.
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Suntans (called at the time "sunburns") became fashionable in the early 1930s, along with travel to the resorts along the Mediterranean, in the Bahamas, and on the east coast of Florida where one can acquire a tan, leading to new categories of clothes: white dinner jackets for men and beach pajamas, halter tops, and bare midriffs for women.Wilcox, R. Turner: The Mode in Fashion, 1942; rev. 1958, pp. 379–84 Fashion trendsetters in the period included Edward VIII and his companion Wallis Simpson, socialites like Nicolas de Gunzburg, Daisy Fellowes and Mona von Bismarck and such Hollywood movie stars as Fred Astaire, Carole Lombard and Joan Crawford.
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By the end of the decade whale tails suffered significant backlash. Jessica Kaminsky wrote in I Hate the Gym, a lifestyle commentary, "I hate when girls let their 'whale tails' creep out of their pants." In 2007, religious writer Tamie Bixler Lung wrote, "There is something wrong when Christian guys and girls want to run around with their underwear hanging out the top of their pants, or their thong strap sticking out the back of their low-rise jeans." The trend of wearing whale tail-revealing jeans started to dissipate somewhat in the mid 2000s when American clothing designers started shifting focus from low-slung jeans and exposed midriffs to high-waisted trousers and cardigans.
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In 2009, a Mary Quant minidress was among the 10 British "design classics" featured on a series of Royal Mail stamps, alongside the Tube map, the Spitfire, and the red telephone box. ;André Courrèges Courrèges explicitly claimed that he invented the mini, and accused Quant of only "commercialising" it. He presented short skirts measuring four inches above the knee in January 1965 for that year's Spring/Summer collection, although some sources claim that Courrèges had been designing miniskirts as early as 1961, the year he launched his couture house. The collection, which also included trouser suits and cut-out backs and midriffs, was designed for a new type of athletic, active young woman.
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Valerie Steele has stated that Courrèges was designing short skirts as early as 1961, although she champions Quant's claim to have created the miniskirt first as being more convincingly supported by evidence. Others, such as Jess Cartner-Morley of The Guardian explicitly credit Courrèges with having invented the miniskirt. The Independent also stated that "Courreges was the inventor of the miniskirt: at least in his eyes and those of the French fashion fraternity ... The argument came down to high fashion vs street fashion and to France versus Britain – there's no conclusive evidence either way." Alongside short skirts, Courrèges was renowned for his trouser suits, cut-out backs and midriffs, all designed for a new type of athletic, active young woman.
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Agnez Mo in navel exposing attire at the 2004 AMI Awards In 2004, the President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono spoke out against exposed navels, saying, "Indonesian women, who are known for their courtesy, should refrain from exposing their midriffs or belly buttons, which now seems to be taken for granted. There are many ways to express beauty, as part of aesthetics, and to express freedom but not by showing things that lead to pornography." He further added that while the state could not dictate dress codes, citizens were expected to respect the country's moral values and courtesy. A week later, a cabinet minister quoted Yudhoyono as saying that he felt "disturbed and uneasy" to see television shows in which women exposed their navels.
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Bulgarian sprinter Ivet Lalova in a sports bikini with her navel tattoo Displays of the female navel commenced with the introduction of the bikini in 1946, designed by Louis Réard, though two-piece swimsuits that exposed the midriff but covered the navel appeared in the 1930s. Réard could not find a model who would dare wear his brief design, so he hired Micheline Bernardini, a 19-year-old nude dancer from the Casino de Paris, as his model.Emily Mitchell, "The Bikini Turns 50", 1 July 1996, Volume 148, No. 1, Time The uptake of the new-style swimsuit was very slow, and even then the bikini was not regarded as suitable clothing beyond the beach or pool. During the 1960s, Mary Quant's designs featured exposed navels and bare midriffs.
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Exposed midriff is associated with the crop top, often in association with low-rise clothing. Another way that the navel may be exposed is via a deep plunging neckline dress or top that drops below the natural waist line. A woman wearing a cropped top and low-rise pants that expose the midriff and navel Low-rise clothing started in the early 1990s, when the British magazine The Face featured Kate Moss in low-rise jeans on its March 1993 issue cover. Models such as Gisele Bündchen frequently flash their midriffs. In 1994, Art Cooper, editor-in-chief of GQ magazine said that his big seller in 1994 was the February issue with Geena Davis on the cover, on which she wore an Armani suit opened at the hips to reveal her navel, It sold about 400,000 copies.
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