"Short-waisted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deplored having to receive her child in a poor way. Often, as she passed through Rue Saint-Lazare, she would stop in front of a linen-draper's, in whose windows were displayed stores of rich baby-linen. She would devour with her eyes the pretty, dainty flowered garments, the pique bibs, the long short-waisted dresses trimmed with English embroidery, the whole doll-like cherub's costume. A terrible longing,—the longing of a pregnant woman,—to break the glass and steal it all, would come upon her: the clerks standing behind the display framework became accustomed ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... and comes to MRS. CARLEY.] Does it strike you that this dress of mine makes me look too short-waisted? ...
— Her Own Way - A Play in Four Acts • Clyde Fitch
... Rire" was a caricature (if such a thing were possible) of the English female traveler of that period. Coal-scuttle poke bonnets, short and scanty skirts, huge splay feet arrayed in indescribable shoes and boots, short-waisted tight-fitting spencers, colors which not only swore at each other, but caused all beholders to swear at them—these were the outward and visible signs of the British fair of that day. To these were added, in this representation of them by these French appreciators of their attractions, ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble |
