Sentence examples for loose shift from inspiring English sources
Given these are tantamount to bodycon, the rest needs to be fluid: I'd go for a loose shift dress.
But the loose shift has been working its way into fashion for a couple of seasons, if only as a respite from uptight clothes.
By this, one means the loose shift drizzled with metallic bits and the intentionally awkward skirt worn with a top that makes a stylistic lunge at futurism (with a shiny or plastic-looking fabric).
Dresses came as loose shifts and in a flared triangular shape which seems to be a burgeoning trend.
In Sichaun's capital, Chengdu, the dirt lot around the vast concrete Nine Eye Bridge Labor Market, the city's largest, is dotted with young country girls in loose shifts and plastic sandals.
William III's court painter Godfrey Kneller based his portrait of the monarch on Van Dyck's Charles I in Robes of State The mid-18th century witnessed the vogue of so-called "Vandyke" dress: loose shifts worn over chemises for women, with ribbons and rosettes; plain satin suits for men, with lace collars and cuffs.
His English portraits of women often show a preference for informal dress: loose shifts, flowing drapery, open necks, bare bosoms and uncovered lower arms (so much quicker to paint than intricate lace collars and cuffs, and also more titillating - the bare arm, it has been said, was to the 1630s what the ankle was to the Victorians).
Consider the spring/summer 2012 collection, in which cat-eye sunglasses, a tiny leather cross-body purse and a headscarf set off a loose white shift dress.
A woman in a loose white shift, Sylvia Farias Heredia, comes on and kneels on all fours, her head hanging between her arms.
It is a life-size, extraordinarily realistic, cast-bronze figure of a woman in a loose black shift standing on a matte black pedestal, like a sidewalk performer pretending to be a statue.
She wears a loose black shift; her skin and hair and a pair of futuristic sunglasses are the golden color of the bronze in which the whole is cast.
