"You wrote that it was to be quite a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed." And she spread out her arms to show her
short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast.
She had retired to this room as a good place in which to be miserable; for it was dark and still, full of ancient furniture, sombre curtains, and hung all around with portraits of solemn old gentlemen in wigs, severe-nosed ladies in top-heavy caps, and staring children in little bob-tailed coats or
short-waisted frocks.
Probably this was not an exceptional result of expensive teaching at that period of
short-waisted coats, and other fashions which have not yet recurred.
It was some small satisfaction to me to observe his spare,
short-waisted, high-shouldered, mulberry-coloured great-coat perched up, in company with an umbrella like a small tent, on the edge of the back seat on the roof, while Agnes was, of course, inside; but what I underwent in my efforts to be friendly with him, while Agnes looked on, perhaps deserved that little recompense.
There is no King George the Fourth now (more the pity) to set the dandy fashion; there are no clear-starched jack-towel neckcloths, no
short-waisted coats, no false calves, no stays.
When carrying OWB I had the holster set up to ride a little low because I'm
short-waisted and high-riding belt holsters park guns close to my armpit.
Even in performance, she spruced up Brown's duds, altering the color and the silhouette to "snap it up in places just a little bit, or bring it down where we need to bring it down." For the Godfather of Soul's epochal appearance on 1964's "The TAMI Show," her
short-waisted checked coat and matching double-breasted vest are updated facsimiles, employing a nifty tuxedo tie instead of the knotted number Brown actually wore.
You can magic one up if you're
short-waisted or straight-up-and-down, with clever block colour panels resembling the Ambiguous Vase illusion.
I don't have the perfect ballet body-I have the legs and feet, but I'm
short-waisted and not super skinny.
I love that shape but, as I am
short-waisted, I have to wear briefer briefs.
Short-waisted hourglasses can do narrower tie belts.
FLATTER YOUR FIGURE Curvier shapes are best suited to sleek threequarter length styles, so slim, tailored, mannish coats are ideal for those
short-waisted or wide at the middle.