Word: waisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making magazines profitable by tarting them up. At the time, YM combined health and relationship advice with reporting on serious subjects such as apartheid (that topic was covered by current New Yorker writer William Finnegan). Fuller relieved the magazine of such weightiness, turning YM into a primer on waist trimming and boy procuring--a junior Cosmo--and more than doubling its circulation. At the real Cosmo, which she joined after a stint as editor in chief of Marie Claire, Fuller cut back on text and made the emphasis on sex even more pointed, increasing newsstand sales 8% during her tenure...
Talk about feeling the burn. Reubenesque users of a heating pad-style weight-loss device are getting scorched -- literally -- when the product, wrapped around their waist, arm or leg, bursts into flames, according to the FDA, which issued a warning Thursday about the pads...
...easy to sum up 100 years of fashion, but if we dared to, we might say that 20th century women's wear amounted to a war over the waist. It was constrained in the late 19th century, but designers loosened it in the teens and '20s; cinched it again in the '30s, '40s and '50s; and symbolically set it free once more in the '60s. From that point on, formality disappeared from daily dress. In the end, freedom conquered constriction...
...person. especially a young person is dressed in business casual, 10 years ago that would have been corporate taboo," he says. "That certainly is not the case now. however, if the person came in here sagging, and they're a 32-inch waist and they're wearing 42-inch pants...if you have body piercing, you need to take those things out. You need to somewhat adhere to business paradigm...
Equality: Pilgrims going for the Hajj wear two unstitched white pieces of cloth, one wrapped around the waist with a belt and the other draped over the upper body. The uniformity of dress, along with other restrictions, removes from visibility the markers of wealth and class distinction. Rich and poor look the same at the Hajj, all equal in their status as pilgrims. The principle of equality is visible in real and large-scale application as the believers perform the rites together in a common dress. Images of the Hajj thus remind us all of the basic equality that supercedes...