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2. Waistline (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Joséphine de Beauharnais wearing a dress with an empire waist. The waistline is the line of demarcation between the upper and lower portions of a garment, which notionally corresponds to the natural waist but may vary with fashion from just below the bust to below the hips. The waistline of a garment is often used to accentuate different features.

3. Waistband - Wikipedia

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   Waistband. A waistband is a strip of material that is either elastic or some other confining fabric that encircles the waist, [ 1] usually as a component of clothing such as skirts, trousers, shorts, swimsuits, and undergarments . A waistband can be a complete undergarment, worn to limit expansion of the abdomen, to meet various objectives ...

4. Sulu (skirt) - Wikipedia

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   Sulu (skirt) A sulu is a kilt -like garment worn by men and women in Fiji since colonisation in the nineteenth century. Etymology The word sulu (pronunciation: soo-loo) literally means clothes or cloth in the iTaukei language. The first sulus were brought by missionaries coming from Tonga in the nineteenth century and were initially worn by ...

5. Adaptive clothing - Wikipedia

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   Adaptive clothing is clothing designed around the needs and abilities of people with varying degrees of disability, including congenital disabilities, acquired disabilities (such as the result of an injury, illness or accident), age (elderly people may have trouble with opening and closing buttons [1]) and temporary disabilities, as well as physical disabilities.

6. Suspenders - Wikipedia

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   Suspenders ( American English, Canadian English ), or braces ( British English, New Zealand English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers. The straps may be elasticated, either entirely or only at attachment ends, and most straps are of woven cloth forming an X or Y shape at the ...

7. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   A gore is a shaped segment, narrow at the top and wider at the base, extending from the waistline to the hem of a skirt. Flared skirts can be made of 2 or more gores. [8] Four-. six-. and eight-gore skirts are common. grain 1. The lengthwise and crosswise grain of fabric refer to the directions parallel to the warp and weft, respectively. 2.