By shedding the high-necked sweaters and trademark glasses she has kept behind for years, Ms. Keaton, some say, has finally come out of hiding.
Ms. Keaton, 64, has after all spent the better part of a near 40-year film career playing an assortment of tentative, endearingly flighty characters, masking her allure beneath layers of cloth, her face and frame obscured by bowler hats, oversize jackets, calf-grazing skirts and gloves — to say nothing of the high-necked sweaters she has worn for years like talismans.
I thought about how the woman and her fiancé were sitting next to each other at the table, how the priest was wearing a high-necked orange sweater, how the woman's fiancé assumed the priest didn't know about "intimacy" with a woman... click.
One young woman, who was wearing a high-necked white sweater and black pants rather than the low-cut top and low-cut jeans favored by most of her classmates, was rumored to have become a nun, but that rumor was soon determined to be false, if diverting.
Her breasts, hidden under a black high-necked, short-sleeved sweater, are irrelevant.
When Taylor Swift wore a black high-necked, long-sleeved sweater for her performance on The X Factor in November 2013, it felt like a statement in relation to the Blurred Lines-gate raging around women and pop music at that moment.
Some were purply-brown and backless, others white and high-necked, slit down the front.
In the widow category is Victorian mourning dress: suffocatingly high-necked, monochromatic black ensembles.
The designer's familiar starchy, high-necked shirts and his own graphic silhouette served him well.
On her wedding day, she wore a high-necked gown with a beaded white hijab.
