Not just waists, but wrists and ankles are taken in.
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Our cultural fixation on flat stomachs, hard abs, and slim waists.
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Women's trouser suits had high waists and arrived above the ankle.
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Some wore traditional mawis around their waists; some wore Yankees caps.
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Waists were small and the dominant shape was an angular hourglass.
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Get ready for super-cinched waists, hourglass silhouettes and pencil skirts.
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Added details like piped seams and belted waists make all the difference.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Wellness programs and American waists are spreading together.
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Now, we're doing more cinching around the hips and higher empire waists.
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A lot of your dolls have unrealistic-sized eyes, breasts, and waists.
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"Posted up with my babes getting our waists right," Jenner captioned the shop.
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They have hourglass figures, with small waists, large breasts, and perfectly toned limbs.
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When they reached the other side, the water was up to their waists.
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We are not meant to go around with excessive fat on our waists.
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We have waists, chests, and hips that can easily be measured with them.
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Members of some indigenous groups in Panama wear fabric wrapped around their waists.
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Together, we lost 20, 30, 60 kilos and 300 centimeters off our waists.
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The brand began not with the plus-size offerings it's known for today, but with adjustable maternity dresses whose drawstring waists were "Designed to Grow with Your Figure" (though the ads showcased models with narrow waists bearing no hint of pregnancy).
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The conjoined babies were connected below their waists and shared a colon and bladder.
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Details such as peplum waists and flared sleeves will also transform your look instantly.
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With this in mind, brands tend to offer elasticated waists and not much else.
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The dresses I was drawn to were purposely oversized and most had drawstring waists.
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My pet peeve with tights is that most waists are just, well, too tight.
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It's a stripped-down, sexy tune, perfect for grabbing waists and sliding into DMs.
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Large breasts are still in vogue, but so are big backsides and tiny waists.
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We do not add up to the circumference of our waists and our thighs.
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El Madani shot plenty of youths stripped to their waists, engaged in mock wrestling.
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Some burners wear them on their heads while others wear them around their waists.
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Not beholden to any particular time period, but rather taking bits from many, it is visible in the Elizabethan ruffs, the balloon sleeves, peplums and bustles, the empire waists that abound (couture doesn't have a lot of trends, but empire waists are one).
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The children had to walk in a long way before the water reached their waists.
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I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
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The Carters were pictured earlier Thursday morning in hard hats with toolbelts around their waists.
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The weight of restraints on your waists, wrists, and ankles makes it difficult to walk.
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Trenches came with wide, corset-like elasticated waists, and reinvented as an A-line skirt.
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Men well under the age of 70 unironically wore pants hitched high above their waists.
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Television footage showed people up to their waists in water and cars being swept away.
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The main difference between these two species had to do with the shape of their waists.
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Puffy coats were wrapped around waists and draped over bike helmets and backpacks on the ground.
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Though the alternative — peekaboo slices of hips and ribs and waists — was only a minor advance.
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Some had burlap sacks tied around their waists to free up their arms; others wore gloves.
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Most princesses have big eyes and little bitty waists and little tiny hooves they walk around on.
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It was still dark when they left and the water was already up to the girls' waists.
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Both men and women have added at least two inches to their waists since 1999, Ogden said.
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Judges look for sculpted shoulders, small and toned waists, large and muscular glutes, and strong, defined legs.
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How did young men wearing their pants closer to their knees than their waists ever become fashionable?
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The handle on ARAD's pet bowl is 28 inches long, so it will reach most adults' waists.
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Men waddle down the road in wetsuits pulled to their waists and surfboards tucked under their arms.
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Think pieces like palazzo pants, pajama suiting and dresses with empire waists in cotton or lightweight silks.
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Wedding dresses today no longer have dropped waists, and typically veils only go on the bride's head.
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Texts and direction lines on the patterns offer instructions about the alignment of busts, waists and shoulders.
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A few wrapped towels around their waists while they changed their underwear, in a failed attempt at privacy.
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As if they were moving through honey, they slide their arms into sleeves; skirts are fastened around waists.
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Doors close as he grabs the slender waists of blonde women who come to him looking for work.
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He points to the tires and they dutifully strap them around their waists, dragging them on the pavement.
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Yes, corsets carved waists and emphasized breasts, boasting sex, but they simultaneously concealed a frequent outcome of sex.
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Having unearthed their taffeta gowns from deep storage, they show off pinched waists, bare arms, throats and shoulders.
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They may have come a long way, but they still have tiny waists, massive eyes, and long hair.
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We wore long underwear under our jungle utilities, and dried our socks by tying them around our waists.
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The women who divorced ate healthier, exercised more, and had smaller waists than the women who stayed married.
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In the 1950s, women across the country wore practical, button-down housedresses with tight waists and deep pockets.
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There were still belted waists, but these were featured on suede jackets and thigh-split skirts or palazzo pants.
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Though the waists are thicker and the hair is thinner, the singers and their songs are recognisably the same.
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Another had women posting pictures of themselves wrapping their hands around their waists to show off their slender physiques.
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There are no Bambi-esque lashes or tiny waists, and equally there aren't particularly muscular shoulders or defined jawlines.
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Corsets shrank waists by up to two inches; crinolines and padding made full, calf-length skirts even more voluminous.
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Above all, they dance together: hand in hand, arms around waists, waltzing or turning one another, finger to scalp.
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The other girls' tights, unlike mine, didn't dig into their waists like a pink belt around teddy bear fluff.
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Elsewhere, dramatic evening wear had exaggerated dropped waists and antique furniture prints, further adding to the show's emotional depth.
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Some even strapped tool belts to their waists and pretended to be craftsmen, disguising newspapers under their thick clothes.
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All of the women say he would repeatedly caress and touch their bodies, including their arms, shoulders, waists and backs.
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Accordingly, Fortepan contains many scenes of idyllic upper-class life: children sledding, friends in knit sweaters holding each other's waists.
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Tourists walked through water up to their waists, while competitors ran in the Venice Marathon on Sunday despite the conditions.
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My setup was in the main room where people walked around with a towel wrapped around their waists or naked.
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Waist-training is all the rage, thanks to the Kardashians, and people are wearing literal corsets to whittle their waists.
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Dior's corsets were of lighter construction, but their nickname, "waspies," underlined their goal to pinch women's waists to wasplike insignificance.
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I incorporate things like pockets, zippers and elastic waists, and suggest new design elements after listening to our clients' needs.
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A handful of people are dancing in the center, shining dark skin and thrown limbs, rapid waists and quick feet.
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Ginny watches them step onto the escalator with their identical ponytails, their small shoulders, their fleeces tied around their waists.
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During the 20163s, dresses, too, adapted to the trend: sleeves became narrower, shoulders sloped and waists elongated into a point.
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Officers would detain young black men and pat them down, feeling around their waists and groins for weapons or drugs.
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Jaynes said people on the plane were in water up to their waists and used the emergency exit to escape.
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Their hands rested in their laps, shackled with a chain around their waists and another around each of their ankles.
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Before heading to New Hampshire via Marine One, the couple showed a united front with their arms around each other's waists.
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When she was walking off stage, she and presenter Hailee Steinfeld put their arms around each other's waists to show solidarity.
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Shops in the cobblestone alleyways of Old Sana'a glistened with bejeweled jumbiyas, the curved ceremonial daggers that hang from male waists.
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Some "had to tie brooms to their waists to sweep away their polluted footprints," wrote the novelist and journalist Arundhati Roy.
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The bleacher inhabitants, stripped to their waists, picked up baseballs and hurled them back in futile loops at the upper deck.
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"Posted up with my babes getting our waists right," Jenner, 18, captioned a photo of the sisters in the trainers last month.
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The five women photographed for the series take on a variety of poses as the photograph frames their legs, waists, and breasts.
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The collection rotated around very strong shoulder lines, fitted waists and round hips, with some designs recalling the glamor of the 1940s.
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The looks feature billowing black and white dresses and separates with nipped-in waists and ecclesiastical touches like high collars and lace.
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The people on North Sentinel eat fish and turtles, wear bark belts around their waists and carry long bows to fire arrows.
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Some even "had to tie brooms to their waists to sweep away their polluted footprints," writes the novelist and journalist Arundhati Roy.
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An alarming photograph spread across social media of the center's residents in wheelchairs and lounge chairs, sitting in water to their waists.
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By the final number, when they portray warrior figures in Grecian-style dresses by Ms. Theallet, their locks stream below their waists.
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It is magnified and feels like it's fictional so Veronica wears a lot of tight clothing, cinched waists, skirts and heels and nylons.
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The pair's $5,395 designer ensembles featured cap sleeves with draped detailing, smocked frill-trim empire waists, tiered maxi skirts, and floor-sweeping hems.
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The pair's $5,395 designer ensembles featured cap sleeves with draped detailing, smocked frill-trim empire waists, tiered maxi skirt, and floor-sweeping hems.
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Still, Scherer's pieces look distinctly alien—like the plant equivalent of women who've trained their waists with corsets, or feet with foot binding.
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During one part of the training, the police punch their fists in the air and twist their waists to music blasted from loudspeakers.
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The pieces reward those who look closely: they are immaculately finished and lined, with neatly gathered waists, slashed sleeves and velvet-ribbon hems.
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Photos and videos of the flooding in Houston are inundating social media, showing submerged cars and people with water up to their waists.
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Conceptually, they come from gun holsters, the apparatus gun owners hang around their waists to be able to reach their weapons with ease.
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From the Blockbuster and Radioshack stores to the payphones and flannel tied around waists, the latest Marvel movie will definitely have you feeling nostalgic.
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The restraints appear on only a number of dogs and tether them to the hunters's waists, allowing their owners to wield bows and arrows.
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"I love the look so much cause I love corsets and I love tiny waists and they really cinched it in there," she says.
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Though elegant at first glance, the prints uncritically celebrate the male gaze, reproducing perverse standards of "feminine" beauty: narrow waists, revealing clothing, light skin.
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While training for the Olympics, the squad used the VERT jump monitor, which fits around players' waists and calculates their jump heights and counts.
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After arriving on the scene, police discovered the women lying face to face with duct tape around their waists, a police source tells PEOPLE.
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The former couple, who were married for two years, walked the red carpet together, posing for photos with their arms around each other's waists.
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"The New Look," largely credited to Dior, was really invented by James, whose nipped waists and umbrella skirts would come to define '50s femininity.
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One of the officials spoke of children who had been apprehended with methamphetamine strapped to their waists and who were traveling with adult smugglers.
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Even if they don't have big breasts and tiny waists like Barbie, the "girls" will likely have long eyelashes, big eyes, and pouty lips.
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The fashion of the series, which takes place between 1912 and 1925, is on display in the gauzy silks, empire waists, and princess sleeves.
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Gardeners had also gained, on average, just 2.3 centimeters (0.91 inch) around their waists, versus nearly 8 cm (3.15 inches) in the waitlist group.
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The athletes stripped to their waists, revealing the words "Title IX," which had been drawn in blue marker on each woman's back and breasts.
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Gyms around New York were packed with what you'd expect: colorful leotards, belts cinched to show off womens' waists, legwarmers, glimmering tights, and jewelry.
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Constantly exposed, the bodies of the Cariocas appear in the collective imagination as tanned and toned, with pert bottoms, thin waists, and large, firm breasts.
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Two independent studies published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism raise hopes that ketogenic diets, if followed full-time, do more than just slim waists.
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Paper thin Women in China are posting pix of themselves with A4 sheets to see if their waists can hide behind its 8.3-inch width.
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Animators drew human figures, like Disney Princesses, as realistically as possible (minus those huge eyes and tiny waists), so they have the usual five fingers.
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Men in camouflage uniforms with pistols at their waists stood around the complex and accompanied the journalists on their tour, but the mood was relaxed.
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I know this isn't the sexiest outfit, ever (empire waists never are), but I'm running out of options and don't want to spend more money.
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But in practice, the look was slithery rock: nipped waists and belling bottoms, sharp shoulders and kicky boots, a sequin-crusted dinner jacket to end.
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Even when other coronary risk factors were taken into account, the chances of developing heart disease were doubled among the women with the largest waists.
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Wilson goes on: Accentuating what made people feel confident — wider shoulders, smaller waists, slimmer hips — meant Guests would feel and look good in our clothing.
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Instead, you'll find flattering belted waists, statement collars, and even a longline moto jacket for those who just don't want to let their leather jackets go.
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The only drawbacks were that they had accelerometers strapped to their wrists and waists, and they didn't have control over their avatar (or their opponents' avatar).
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Likewise Kenneth Tam's hilarious video that captures men engaging in strange twists on male-bonding, like choreographing a circular dance with bells affixed to their waists.
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Footage on Turkish media showed hundreds of books and goods floating in the water as shopkeepers submerged up to their waists worked to clear the area.
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Some are using it to refine a silhouette, such as the leather bustiers and wide contour belts that finessed the waists of Jonathan Anderson's Loewe clothes.
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With Gigi Hadid and Kaia Gerber as walking bouquets, with glossy ribbons around their waists and flowers blooming from their boots and dresses of paper folds.
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The teenagers described how the armed militants tied suicide belts to their waists, or thrust bombs into their hands, and directed them toward crowded civilian areas.
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Rihanna is introducing her line to the world with structured silhouettes in subdued neutrals that emphasize strong shoulders, cinched waists and exposed legs (at least to start).
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The guard "didn't check my ankles," Stanton said, adding that other guards at the venue likely also weren't bothering to bend down to check below patrons' waists.
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He specialized in contouring women's bodies to have the small waists and big butts that are so often admired in the genre (with or without stretch marks).
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"Although you see many corsets in the show with seemingly tiny waists, maybe those women didn't always wear a corset like that," exhibition curator Edwina Ehrman said.
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The couple flew to New Hampshire together Monday afternoon to speak about the opioid crisis and walked to Marine One with their arms around each other's waists.
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Then we could smooth out, tone, slim, and contour our faces, whiten our teeth, resize our irises, cinch our waists, and add a few inches in height.
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She is careful to note the smallest of details, which she conveys when she stands in a huddle to pray with her arms wrapped around players' waists.
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There were '90s sportswear zip-up jackets given tight belted waists and padded hips, followed by jackets printed with the fine detail of brocade and military regalia.
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The researchers stressed that waist circumference was a more important marker than overall obesity and advised doctors to measure their patient's waists to identify those at risk.
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Many of them—cigarettes in their mouths, Kalashnikovs on their backs, and grenades fastened to the sashes around their waists—looked no older than sixteen or seventeen.
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A tweet showing images of Reeves posing with multiple women went viral earlier this year, with pictures showing his hands hovering either over women's arms or waists.
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Ford gave Gucci a radical makeover, emphasizing slinky, bias-cut gowns, in black or white jersey, that featured plunging necklines, cutouts at the hip, and buckled waists.
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Suits were blown up to zoot-like proportions: waists nipped in, shoulders jutted out, lapels built into pyramids, pants blouson in the extreme, some ties rendered wide.
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Tiny waists, visible clavicles, rosy cheeks, white skin — all of them would be championed as signs of consumption's singular ability to confer attractiveness on its female sufferers.
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After almost 11 months of being attached to each other by their waists, Ximena and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres have been successfully separated, according to their mother, Silva Torres.
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Today, despite gender bias and its fallout, women have more space and freedom than ever before to shape our lives as we see fit — not just our waists.
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I dressed her in horrible A-line dresses with surreptitious elastic waists and boat necks — so many boat necks on that website, an ocean full of boat necks.
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Thai Airways banned passengers with waists larger than 56 inches from flying in business class in 2018 because the seatbelts in business class could not extend beyond that.
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Researchers used accelerometers attached to the waists of 3,974 healthy men and women, average age 46, to monitor the duration and quality of their sleep over seven nights.
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Blue and white crinoline bounced from shoulders and waists, a lime green hat twinkled with rhinestones, and a hoop skirt lifted a train of binder-clipped Bubble Wrap.
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The teenagers described being kidnapped by armed militants who tied suicide belts to their waists, or thrust bombs into their hands, and sent them toward crowded civilian areas.
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The Vietnamese crewmen hold rubber hoses in their mouths attached to an onboard air compressor, strap lead weights around their waists, then dive, often deeper than a hundred feet.
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But we have grown used to the sight of "normal" mannequins in the same way we have with Barbie dolls and Disney princesses with waists narrower than their heads.
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With full skirts and cinched waists, Christian Dior's designs represented a post-war return to more historically traditional gender roles that would now be labeled as antiquated and restrictive.
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That means I'm forced to buy special gear just to haul this thing around, which makes it just as cumbersome as other 17-inch systems with much bigger waists.
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Two shirtless men in mesh skirts shared a cup of chocolate ice cream, the thick metal chains around their necks mirrored by their veiny forearms around one another's waists.
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Sarah Burton's collection for Alexander McQueen, inspired in part by the shape of a Victorian wedding dress, was heavy on mega-ruffles and tiny waists belted in black leather.
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But then you go to Biarritz, and join the throng of tourists on the ancient esplanade, and dodge carousers playing drinking games that involve wearing floaties around their waists.
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Thai Airways banned passengers with waists larger than 56 inches from flying in business class in 2018 because the seatbelts don&apost extend to accommodate passengers of all sizes.
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There were two women, who had long, thick hair and wore flaps of woven bark on strings around their waists, which protected their genitals but left their bottoms bare.
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Corseted, laced-up waists, balloon sleeves placed lower down the arm, and more sober hues, which ushered in the Renaissance dress at Adeam, Ashley Williams, Brock Collection, and Emilia Wickstead.
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Those high-heel rounded-toe Mary Janes, with their block heels; the slip-on satiny mules; the collars pointed extremely down and the pants had waists that went extremely up.
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For Waight Keller, Dautheville proved a revelation, tying Chloé's '70s silhouette — skinny torso, high waists, flares and platform shoes — to a new spirit of female independence, epitomized by her travels.
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Waists were dropped to thigh-height and hung from garter belts of Mr. Browne's signature red, white and blue grosgrain, the better to fool the eye and elongate the proportions.
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Modifications such as adjustable hems, one-handed zippers, side-seam openings, bungee cord closure systems, adjustable waists, and magnetic buttons and velcro make the fashionable designs much more disability friendly.
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Macon, Georgia (CNN)Dylan Thomas' number was painted on the faces of Pike County High School cheerleaders, emblazoned on T-shirts, wristbands and the towels hanging from his teammates' waists.
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Two teams tied hot dogs to strings dangling from their waists and tried, with a dexterous combination of rocking and bending worthy of a fitness class, to take a bite.
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With singer Rufus Wainwright performing live, Kors sent models down the catwalk in designs that had strong shoulders and whittled waists in a color palette of tangerine, sand, navy and aquamarine.
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Among white participants, 37 percent had abdominal obesity and about 6 percent of these individuals had high albumin levels while almost 5 percent of those without big waists had high albumin.
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Like other black pastors, she's struggled with whether to allow members who have concealed carry permits to have guns strapped to their waists under their suit jackets or in their purses.
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Byrd said that some styles popular in the 1980s — including dresses that had high necklines and cinched or belted waists, along with big cartwheel-style hats — symbolized a brief '40s-revival.
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Yoshiro remembered how girls used to choose clothes that would emphasize the curve of their waists or the size of their breasts, leaving the thighs or the backs exposed whenever possible.
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There, below a small pier that juts out from the park at 68th Street, lay the bodies of two young women, bound together by duct tape at their waists and ankles.
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The '50s are fertile ground for fashion — poodle skirts, swing coats, saddle shoes, capri pants, wasp waists and twin sets, all fun and fetching, and some even fitting the space allotted.
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It was a sea of flawless skin, diaphanous dresses, wasp waists, and carb aversion: the Bagger was one of only three at her table of 18 to not order the salad.
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They might marvel at the sumptuous dresses with complicated sleeves and impossibly small waists, the shawls and aprons hand-embroidered with intricate designs and the delicate jewelry woven from human hair.
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Ahead, find a range of options to suit your power dressing needs, including belted waists, plenty of plaid, and asymmetrical tailoring for a unique blazer dress to instantly upgrade your wardrobe.
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"I wanted to show off backs, waists, legs — not the parts of the body that are overtly sexual, but ones that have a lot a beauty to them," Ms. Starn said.
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The best-looking young men had delicate features and slim waists, she notes, while women wore thick, dark eyebrows and mustaches, sometimes even enhancing the hair on their upper lip with mascara.
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Tunis says she's received several notes from parents saying they are grateful to have an alternative option to the tiny waists and unrealistic proportions that coat the pages of other coloring books.
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DKNY served up extreme proportions — think tiny waists, wide shoulders, and extra-long sleeves — and Off-White put a sporty spin on white blazers with mismatched hems, baseball caps, and racing stripes.
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To keep you up-to-date on your terminology, we listed the six different types of underwear every woman should own — starting with G-strings and making our way to high waists.
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The teaser, captured by someone in the audience, shows as Wiseau, Sestero and Isaiah LaBorde walking the streets of New Orleans as a sudden flood quickly brings water up to their waists.
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The Shreveport, Louisiana, law, first enacted in 2007 during a wave of similar bans across the country, burdened black men with hundred-dollar fines for wearing pants that fell below their waists.
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The Shreveport, Louisiana, law, first enacted in 20093 during a wave of similar bans across the country, burdened black men with hundred-dollar fines for wearing pants that fell below their waists.
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"The waistband is wide, accommodating of a pooch and comfortable, especially compared to so many pull-on skirts that seem to be made for curvy bodies with smaller waists," wrote user WoodlandChic.
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There were, for example, long skinny knit dresses with deep V necklines, and lemon yellow trouser suits with knit corset waists and knit dickeys that flowed like a stream down the back.
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Chiuri's skill, most recently seen at Dior's couture presentation earlier this month, is in the exquisite execution of 22014s-era rounded shoulders, cinched waists, and full skirts that define and preserve Dior's archive.
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While there are a few dolls made to look like men, the majority look like white women and are created with slim waists and gigantic breasts (what the FRR calls "pornographic body representation").
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He offered directives like "unravel" and "coil in" as both remained, quite literally, tethered by the rope, wrapping it around their waists, securing it around a wrist, or knotting it around their necks.
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But even with that botanical theme, applied to a botanical substance, Scherer's pieces look distinctly alien—like the plant equivalent of women who've trained their waists with corsets, or feet with foot binding.
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LONDON — A television ad showing women using a corset to make their waists appear "sexy" and "tiny" has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in Britain after officials deemed it "irresponsible".
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The A4 social media challenge in 2017 featured women posting pictures of themselves covering their waists with an A4 sheet of paper (21 centimeters by 29.7 centimeters, or 8 inches by 11 inches).
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After peaking in the late 1980s to mid-90s, they weathered two decades of derision— clinging to the waists of lifestyle rollerbladers—only to resurface as unlikely style staples of the mid-2010s.
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They were priced for working-class people with fairy-tale aspirations, and they came in nylon and sateen and other cheaper fabrics; the skirts often swirled, and the waists had big stiff bows.
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As models zigzagged through archways and piazzas on a set in the grand hall of the Fondazione Prada Milan, cinched waists created feminine hourglass silhouettes while flower motifs and fringes decorated straighter styles.
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Tate notes that she recently cast 35-year-old Marica Hase as a teen because she maintains the characteristics of that genre—in her words: small, natural breasts, straighter waists, and overall slimmer figures.
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Even the appearance of women in MMOs counts against them in combat: Large breasts, twig-thin waists, and skimpy armor can assert a female gamer's supporting role before she even picks up a sword.
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That means means we petites have grown all too accustomed to sleeves being too long and too big, shoulders and waists hitting in the wrong places, bodices being far too large, and the lengths?
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A far cry from the simplicity of its '80s and '90s stylized predecessors, the modern puffa coat is bigger, better, and bolder featuring new additions like built-in ties, metallic colorways, and cinched waists.
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The Shop Channel aired the teleshopping ad for the Velform Miniwaist — a waist compression garment — which showed various women squeezing their waists, along with footage of the women before and after using the garment.
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Short, curvy portrait-collared cashmere or fur coats had a jolie madame cool, and cocktail dresses with hip-hugging skirts and high waists under colorful silks sliding off one shoulder, a fillip of chic.
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Now that I know that those voluptuous vases are by the son of Pierre-Auguste, I would compare the shape of their tiny "waists" and ample "hips" to the forms of late Renoir nudes.
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On Christmas Eve, two Ghanaians were picked up on the roadside north of town, some 10 hours after they had set off into a field near the border, sinking to their waists in snow.
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Its catalog, launched in 1983, depicted couples with sweaters slung over their shoulders and around their waists, and sun-tanned men wearing white button-downs, striped ties, and rolled-up khakis on the beach.
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The second part of the study, the real-world test, had participants wear research-grade accelerometers at their waists for the whole day, then compared those readings to the step count produced by their iPhones.
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And Facetune heightens the requirements for what counts as aspirational: Users with the biggest eyes, lips, and butt, the smoothest skin, and the waspiest waists are rewarded with likes, which can then translate into cash.
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Then we'd pull ourselves miserably back to my house and struggle out of our clothing, rings of burning-cold snow lining our wrists, ankles, throats, and waists, and prepare ourselves to pound back hot chocolate.
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Mr. Goude, who resembles a grizzled pixie and has a tendency to pair seersucker jackets with nipped-in waists with black T-shirts, drawstring harem pants and white bucks, is well aware of the risks.
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His fall 2019 collection was a dazzling homage to traditional haute couture, featuring ornate floral embroidery crafted in India and extreme silhouettes — cinched waists, bustled hips, high necks — achieved with the help of inbuilt corsetry.
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Near a strip mall that sold religious candelabra and fur hats, a group of teenage boys tugged at the prayer threads that hung at their waists, discussing whether they would hang out with unvaccinated friends.
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He said he travels annually to Pamplona for the San Fermin festival, the famed stampede when bulls run through the narrow streets alongside runners in white outfits with red scarves tied around their necks or waists.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — In the latest beauty craze sweeping social media in China, women — and some men — are boasting that they are paper thin, by posting photographs of their waists behind a vertical piece of A24 paper.
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If our sexual desires were biologically programmed to advance the species, then shouldn't we have evolved to the point at which women with broad shoulders and waists were seen as the most idealized form of femininity?
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The silhouettes recall traditional Russian styles, with tiered skirts, corseted waists and strange headgear — including variations on the kokoshnik, the tall, crested headpiece embroidered with pearls, which can be found in the portraits of Russian royals.
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At Brock Collection, the designers Kristopher and Laura Vassar Brock underscored their young brand's ultrafeminine DNA with a fanciful lineup of dresses and skirts, some ruffled, some with peplum waists, others styled with figure-flattering belts.
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The later use of separate parts in corsets, such as the steam-molded corsets of the 1860s, also moved fashion away from the willowy waists of "tubercular chic" into a curvy form believed to be more healthy.
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In the ceremony, girls are sent to the house of a chief priest, where they undress, have their heads shaved, and are given cloths to wear around their waists; strips of raffia are tied around their necks.
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He played with proportion, blowing up shoulders and shirt sleeves and hiking trouser-waists heavenward, but the overall effect was sweet, with a whiff of the '80s nostalgia that has been blowing through Paris fashion this week.
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Dozens of models with sleek, mane-like ponytails strode down the rain-soaked runway in cotton lace gowns with cinched waists and extravagantly full skirts, paired with fitted jackets, leather saddlebags and lace-up rubber rain boots.
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But these were only a fraction of what was shown, sandwiched between swishy, deep-pile corduroy suiting with nipped-in waists, big pleated pockets and epaulets on the shoulders; extravagantly fringed chunky knits and hand-painted leathers.
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Keanu Reeves was 'breathtaking' at Xbox's E3 event A tweet showing Reeves posing with multiple women, including Dolly Parton, with his arm behind the women and his hand hovering over either their arms or waists has gone viral.
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On its face, the transition from the short, loose dresses of the Roaring Twenties to the nipped waists, long hemlines, and strong shoulders of the 333s seems like a perfect example of a tough economy breeding conservative clothing.
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Only those who make it into the top ten—many of whom boast hourglass figures, with tiny waists and Kardashian-like curves—get a chance to speak to the judges, answering one interview question during the final round.
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Less alarming were the more generous alternatives: tuxedo shorts to the knee with matching jackets or bustier tops; silky pajama shorts with belted, dropped waists; thigh-length army versions in khaki and thigh-baring denim cutoffs for day.
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This season, Isabel Marant dialed down the feminine whimsy and instead proposed a warrior-like silhouette: Jackets and knits came with exaggerated shoulders that petered down to the narrowest of waists on tailored pants or handkerchief-hem skirts.
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Possibly as a result of these healthy behaviors, gardeners in the small study also tended to gain less weight around their waists compared to their counterparts on a waiting list for the gardening intervention, the study team reports.
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His hallmark creations, including balloon-sleeved blouses and calf-length trousers with flared hems, were hailed in their time as airy alternatives to the tight waists and artificial curves of the then-dominant "New Look" of Christian Dior.
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New York (CNN)When their bodies were found last week on the banks of New York's Hudson River, the sisters wore similar black leggings and fur-trimmed jackets, with their feet and waists bound together by duct tape.
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They found that active traits, like "quarrelsome" or "enthusiastic" were associated with more "shaped" bodies, while passive traits, like "trustworthy" or "easy-going", were associated with rectangular bodies— bodies where curves were evenly proportioned and waists were undefined.
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On Thursday, Reinhart called out Cosmopolitan Philippines for altering images of her and co-star Camila Mendes from the February cover shoot of Cosmopolitan US, trimming each of their waists to appear smaller (on International Women's Day, no less).
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With Charles-Donatien's help, Wang had taken the classic elements of Napoleonic style—peacoats with officer's stripes, gauzy gowns with Empire waists, fleurs-de-lis and fur stoles, like a French hussar's—and reimagined them as sexy evening wear.
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Jeff Kruse, a state senator, resigned earlier this year after an independent report found that for years he had touched women, including three senators, inappropriately or offensively, sometimes hugging them from behind or putting his hands below their waists.
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Restrictive high waists and narrow hobble skirts were replaced by looser skirts, suits and — shock — trousers and overalls, along with easy-to-wear calf-length dresses, like those in the exhibition designed by Callot Soeurs, Poiret, Lanvin and Vionnet.
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Swishy long dresses, their waists cinched by wide patent leather belts; pussycat bows; fur chubbies; operatic butterfly sleeves, and other hallmarks of Yves Saint Laurent's early '70s collections were a naked (and some would say shameless) nod to the Master himself.
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From nipped-in waists at Jacquemus and a looser shape at Victoria Beckham to maximalist patterns at Gucci, classic checks at Off-White, and sporty options at Versace, emblazoned with the words 'Love,' 'Unity,' and 'Loyalty,' the options were endless.
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Sometimes, when my partner does not hold my hand at the movies, I think about how once I happened to see my beautiful friend and her good-looking husband walking down an avenue with their arms around each other's waists.
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Truth is, it has been coming — let's not forget that Olivier Rousteing sent corseted pieces and other styles with tightly cinched waists down the Balmain fall 2016 runway (which, whether intentional or not, alluded to his Kardashian muses' hourglass figures).
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Nipped waists have long represented femininity incarnate — think of Scarlett O'Hara's famously petite Civil War-era midriff (17 inches), or the elaborate stays and busks worn by Elizabeth I, despite her claim that she had the stomach of a king.
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Antwon's mother stood with them on the stage and held onto their waists and shoulders as they finished reading the poem: I try my best to make my dream true I hope that it does I am confused and afraid
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Wool coats were finished in elaborate frogging and big pearl buttons, leather combat boots studded with pearls were laced up to mid-thigh, and they were echoed by corset lacing at the waists of velvet-trim pencil-tight jersey dresses.
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The Hula Hoop The craze that first twirled its way into postwar American backyards in 1958 began when two toymakers, Spud Melin and Richard Knerr, learned of a bamboo hoop that children in Australia spun around their waists in gym class.
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This adds dimensions to their sisterly quest, even if the harmonious emotions and good intentions never fully atone for the conventionalism of the blond-on-blond character design, the tiny waists, pert breasts, jeweled eyes and pale plastic-y skin.
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But more lavish than the pastries and meats on display was the attire of those eating them: Men wore oversize shearling coats with cowbells chained around their waists, and women lifted lace hanging from black eye masks to have a bite.
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It was an era of maximalism, where every fashion trend seemed to be big: teased hair, loud makeup, and giant shoulder pads that triangulated into super-cinched waists — which, removed from the context of the period, now look like costumes.
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Their breasts are often comically large, their feet small and pointed like a Barbie's; they all have firm, round butts of varying swollenness, their lips are full and painted with dark liner and high gloss, and they each have impossibly skinny waists.
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And Vera Wang's backless plastrons (those would be fencing vests) over white poplin shirts over sweeping black kilts with dropped trouser waists, which gave way to brutalist raccoon vests and coats, which gave way to ghostly nude tulle gowns bearing sequined panels.
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For instance, the long trains of early 1800s neoclassical-style dresses, with high waists and diaphanous fabric that were not dissimilar from nightgowns worn by the dying, were later shortened when it was thought they might drag in these contagions from the street.
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"Little girls buy fashion dolls with idealized proportions which means slightly larger heads, eyes and lips; slightly smaller noses and waists; and slightly longer limbs than those that appear routinely in nature," Kozinski wrote, giving "slightly" a meaning I never knew it had.
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So, if you're after longer hair — or you just want to figure out how girls with hair down to their waists manage to keep it shiny and not dead-looking — read on to learn the strand secrets that no one's ever told you.
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The case remains steeped in mystery more than a week after the bodies of 22-year-old Rotana Farea and 16-year-old Tala Farea of Fairfax, Virginia, were discovered in upper Manhattan with their feet and waists bound together by duct tape.
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One teenager we met with told us how every morning he and his friends were instructed to strap explosive vests to their waists and picture themselves walking into busy streets or sprinting through enemy territory to clear the route for a frontline offensive.
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In a study of more than 3,000 premenopausal and postmenopausal women in Mumbai, India, those whose waists were nearly as big as their hips faced a three- to four-times greater risk of getting a breast cancer diagnosis than normal-weight women.
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Perplexing in other ways were the trousers with high gathered paper-bag waists, vaguely emasculating short shorts, creepy Cliff Huxtable cardigans tucked into waistbands, fanny packs worn at the small of the back, shirts with popped collars reminiscent of Ming the Merciless.
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After many checkpoints, where officers shake down the young men on motorbikes, some riding two or three at a time, their thin arms curled around each other's waists, you'll see a silty brown river snaking past men lounging on charpoys by its banks.
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If the term "Disney princess" evokes, for a certain kind of parent, a distasteful ethos of sparkly dresses, impossible wasp-waists and fables of princely rescue, then "Frozen," which centers on not one but two princesses, seemed, sight unseen, to be doubly odious.
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Suffragist white was the biggest color of the night — though more provocative were the bondage straps that wound round the exposed waists of Rosamund Pike and Thandie Newton as if to suggest all stars are at the mercy of the red carpet rules.
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It's wonderful that Mitchell is trying to make strides for women in animation — it's about time that princesses with eyes bigger than their waists were taken back to the drawing board — yet changes in the portrayals of women have to be more than skin-deep.
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Feminine elements including ruffled skirts, floral embroidery, bucolic 'toile de Jouy' prints, and cinched waists were matched by harder, more utilitarian pieces — stomping boots, shirts with ties, stiff-peaked rodeo hats by Stephen Jones — and, of course, the logo motif so favored by Grazia Chiuri.
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We've been discussing the evils of Photoshop for decades, and airbrushing before that, because of their negative effect on body image, with the general, agreed-upon takeaway being that yes, it is bad to narrow already-thin models' waists or misrepresent their skin tones.
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It's given rise to an uncanny sameness in many influencers, a phenomenon known as "Instagram Face": large, smoldering eyes and puffy, pouty lips, radiantly contoured skin and, when extended to the rest of the body, tiny waists that sit atop almost spherically perky butts.
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Over the weekend, a dike was breached in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec, a suburb west of Montreal, sending 5,000 residents fleeing to higher ground, some frantically scooping up their small children, pets and valuables as water came as high as their waists.
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For Jones, that means being able to mix karaoke-worthy '80s deep cuts (hello, New Edition, Gap Band, and Maze!) with niche reggae and soca records that will have everyone at home whining their waists before grounding us in mainstream hip hop once again.
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A recent study in the journal Lancet Public Health found that people living within a kilometer (a little more than half a mile) of physical activity facilities -- including gyms, swimming pools and playing fields -- weighed less and had smaller waists than those who didn't.
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As the soundtrack continued with a host of female singers (including Banks, Tatu, and Florence and the Machine), the collection featured the typical silhouettes we've come to expect from his collections: bodycon silhouettes, exaggerated shoulders, cinched waists, flesh-baring cut-outs, and a lot of ruffles.
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" Schmidt added that the offering features "new fit-focused separates [that] come in multiple flattering colors with details such as high waists, asymmetrical lines, full bottom coverage, thin straps, and high necklines," with hopes that the expanded selection will "celebrate the diversity of the female body.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police were still trying to piece together on Wednesday a mystery over two young women whose bodies were discovered a week ago on the rocky Manhattan shore of the Hudson River, bound together with duct tape around their waists and ankles.
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This, if you've ever met a girlfriend's dad, is de rigeuer: Dads, their dominance and testosterone fading, just on the cusp of realizing their generation is no longer the active one, ballooning around the waists, no longer vital or attractive, the dads, hairlines receding to their backs.
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Among some 1,600 people in the UK, researchers found that those who slept more than eight hours a night had lower body mass index (BMI) - a measure of weight relative to height - and slightly smaller waists when compared to people who slept less than seven hours.
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"The suit has three sizes of upper torso, eight sizes of adjustable elbows, over 65 sizes of gloves, two sizes of adjustable waists, five sizes of adjustable knees and a vast array of padding options for almost every part of the body," she wrote in an email.
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Upstream are the 48- and 43-story American Copper Buildings, sibling apartment towers that look as if they were being pulled toward each other by a 100-foot bridge at their waists (inside of which is what must be the coolest swimming pool in the city).
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For an entire era of featured women rocking slim waists, popular veneers, and high-status symbols, Shannon's Barb along with Ethel Muggs from Riverdale and Annabelle from Rise are symbols of a growing yet marginalized kind of image that many audiences feel eager to rally around.
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Our country was traumatized by the celebrity obsession with so-called "sexy" low-rise looks 20 years ago, and as a result we're embracing higher waisted denim—but because we still don't grasp where our waists actually lie, we've unknowingly trapped ourselves in a low-waisted fashion nightmare.
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But even if it isn't ruling the underwear world in perpetuity, the granny panty will always be here, squashed into a corner of our underwear drawers, waiting for us to exhaustedly slither into at the end of a grueling workday, resting at our natural waists, holding us together.
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Proving that no bold-faced personality tied to a label is necessary for its success, Ruffieux and Meier presented a selection of understated-but-beautiful bare-shouldered silhouettes, lacy pieces, nipped-in waists with exquisite tailoring, and the most intricate diamanté embellishments and Lily of the Valley prints.
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Take a look at the most beautiful of today's top Instagram influencers and they all look astoundingly the same — their butts, perfect bouncing balloons; the smooth curves of their itty-bitty waists; lips pursed into a big swollen pout, with contoured noses, sharp cheekbones, and smoldering bedroom eyes.
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Midcentury silhouettes — the full skirts and tiny waists and trapeze cuts that have been part of Mr. Simons's design vocabulary since his stints at Jil Sander and Dior — rendered in camper-tent nylons also were used for the oily shirts under men's tailoring, gathered and puckered with rucksack strings.
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But the alarm in my head continued to ring — not just because corsets are back in a big way, but because I, surprisingly, love the way they look, especially in the fresh and often weird way they're styled, wrapping and shaping our waists in a way I never thought we could.
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The drivers park the buses at an angle and position the doors in such a way that passersby might not even notice the dozens of people shackled at their hands and feet, with a chain across their waists to keep the handcuffs in place — unless they know what to look for.
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Yet, since recent events suggest the type is with us for the long haul, why not imagine pimping him in diagonally bisected jerseys in three jarring colors; slouchy bathrobe dusters; puffer coats with waists cinched smaller than an ant's thorax; or plush turtlenecks that threaten to swallow up his swollen head?
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If you've been even a lackadaisical fan (like me) in the seven years since it premiered, there are certain things you know to expect: a drink thrown in the thick of an argument, promises of a hit single that will likely never come, and lots of small waists making way for big butts among them.
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There was a rack of wool and mohair suits in pinstripe, tweaked to Mr. O'Shea's specifications from the existing template, with stronger shoulders, smaller waists and slightly longer jackets, as well as plenty of pieces that veered toward the baroque, including full-length chinchilla coats and crocodile trenches, velvet blazers and champagne-colored silk shirts.
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With seven times the number of homes burning in wildfires today compared with the 1970s, wildland firefighters with little more than the fire resistant clothes on their backs, the chain saws and axes in their hands and the fire shelters strapped to their waists increasingly are called up to somehow stand up to the flames.
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Why the line also included a new capsule of reissued designs from the mid-'80s and '90s (thick ribbed sweaters with nipped-in waists; blouson backs and matching miniskirts; malleable shearling jackets with embroideries up the sides) that wore their date on their tags, because if they didn't, you'd never know when they were made.
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In the Studio In the latest installment of our video series that goes inside the private working worlds of designers, Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, co-creative directors of Oscar de la Renta, talk about taking over the corner office, their arguments over waists, and how Hillary Clinton helped them at an emotional time.
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In Ms. Waight Keller's case, for example, it meant plundering not just gardens, but the house archives — particularly those of the post-"Sabrina" 1950s Audrey Hepburn years — melding past and present in knife-edge skinny cigarette trousers under big, blossoming whorls of organza tops, waists often caught with a slick corset-wide patent-leather belt.
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Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them torn apart by German shepherds ... So sickening was the spectacle that even Nazis in the city were horrified.
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Evolutionary psychologists, eagerly applying adaptive logic to every facet of behavior and cognition, have speculated that the human perception of beauty emerges from a set of ancient adaptations: Perhaps men like women with large breasts and narrow waists because those features signal high fertility; symmetrical faces may correlate with overall health; maybe babies are irresistibly cute because their juvenile features activate the caregiving circuits in our brains.
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Shoulders and waists did double duty as erogenous zones, and stripes — "another one of our codes," according to Ms. Fendi — soared diagonally, horizontally and every other which way, mixed in and over logos old and new ("I refreshed it," the designer Karl Lagerfeld said of the single gold F in a pink circle that created a punctuation mark at the end of the runway).
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Instead, now there is the designer as welcoming host, like Joseph Altuzarra, who — in the most sophisticated and fully realized collection he has made in seasons — offered a peek into his own family history with soignée 1940s suiting, all portrait necklines and narrow skirts, waists caught by the thinnest of chains, inspired by treasures found in his grandmother's trunk and grounded by feather-tufted bedroom slippers.
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People are already furious about the mere prospect of being forced back into a more stomach-centric pants style after luxuriating in the comfort of high-waisted pants for the past four or five years—and in November, fashion writer Rachel Syme predicted in a New Yorker article that we're only going to make waists higher and higher... more evidence of the impending ab phase-out.
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More fascinating, and infinitely weirder, were the exaggerated proportions Mr. Akasaka devised for jeans so tight that one model was told he had gotten too fat to wear them after eating a slice of pizza for lunch; whose waists crested just shy of the models' nipples; and whose flared bottoms, created using 3-D imaging technology, seemed to have a life of their own.
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Among the complaints, the organization says that workers were not allowed to provide documentation proving they had authorization to work or were already in deportation proceedings, were unaware of their constitutional right to an attorney, were handcuffed with chains around their waists, and were given only a small cup of soup and crackers — not adequate food, they say — for the 12 hours that most were detained as they were processed.
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And when beneath them appears a fantastical assortment of women in giant metallic crowns, like Aztec pyramids, above multilayered tank tops and intricately seamed robes in black and pink and mustard, royal exoskeletons gleaming with sequins, shoulders jutting up to the sky, handbags soaring from waists like sci-fi panniers, ruffles and weirdness all in one, it is as if you have gone over the rainbow to an alternate world.
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There's Coco Chanel's 1920s evening dress, a loose shift dress signaling women's slow liberation from the corset and from which the concept of the "little black dress" was born; there's Thierry Mugler's femme fatale version from 1981 — all exploded shoulders and cinched waists and an emphasis on the breasts; and there's a version by Rick Owens from his spring 2014 collection, which featured an entirely African American step team as its models.
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During the captivating rehearsals, which take place in the street in front of their headquarters, the women not only play bass drums — called surdos — strapped around their shoulders or waists and resting against knees protected by thick kneepads, but also swing the heavy, keg-sized drums up into the air, balancing them above their heads with one trembling arm, as the seconds tick by and the gathered crowd cheers, in an act symbolizing their defiance of those old gender rules.
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Here, he exposed thin legs with knobby knees below shorts in dusty colors affixed with pleather bags resembling external bladders, showed pleated tank tops twined as intricately as Japanese bondage knots, shod his cast in tractor-soled sneakers, gave them gorgeous voluminous suits to wear or put them in flowing trousers whose constricting high waists fastened below the nipples of models with chests so bony they looked as if they ought to walk straight off the ramp and into an emergency room.
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The Eiffel faux, as it were, was the scene for nearly 70 looks of heavy tweeds, nipped waists, and mutton-sleeve coats and jackets in grays, brown, and aubergine—an almost pastoral view of a bygone Paris, more akin to Gustave Caillebotte's 1877 Paris Street: Rainy Day than, say, Marie Laurencin's famous 1923 portrait of Coco Chanel, in which she is lost in solemn, almost hopeless reverie, and draped in slate blue and inky black like a ballet dancer or a caryatid exhausted by the weight of promoting her own grand ideas.
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