Sentence examples for low waist from inspiring English sources

Despite a return to some higher-waisted styles, most jeans still hit at the low waist with the average rise (distance from the center crotch to the top of the waist band) being 7 to 9 inches (17.8 to 22.9 cm), thus the waist on a size 30 is measuring 33 to 35 inches (83.8 to 88.9 cm) NOT 30.

One woman enlivened her mink coat with a wide leather belt, while a woman in a trench coat marked a low waist with a gold-embroidered belt.

'It's not as straight up and down as I usually do,' says Bartley, who's known for low waist lines and skinny, men's-shaped shirts.

The first effect is of clothes designed with a ruler and square, the tailoring built on a low waist, perhaps with knife pleats on a skirt.

There was nothing remotely provocative about her, until she leaned over to remove the leash from her dog's collar and I saw protruding from the low waist of her jeans the scarlet V of a thong.

One of the first outfits was a jacket, based on a military fatigue, which had a low waist, some lace embroidered on it and an orange chiffon skirt spangled with gold around the hem.

This woman had been chosen by the researchers, Tracy Vaillancourt and Aanchal Sharma, because she "embodied qualities considered attractive from an evolutionary perspective," meaning a "low waist-to-hip ratio, clear skin, large breasts".

Over the past two decades, researchers have been looking at whether cinched yet sumptuous female body shapes, corresponding to low waist-to-hip ratios, are preferred by men across societies and have been favored across time, the idea being that if the answer is yes, evolutionary factors would seem to outweigh culture in determining at least this one aspect of lust.

Apart from a balanced face and good physical health a woman's appeal is also reportedly in having a low waist-to-hip ratio.

Earlier this year, William Lassek, an epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, and anthropologist Steven Gaulin of the University of California, Santa Barbara, reported that women who accumulated more fat on their hips than on their waists--and who, therefore, had low waist-hip ratios like many movie stars--had higher cognitive test scores, as did their children.

Even a young woman's curvy, low waist-to-hip ratio is enhanced by estrogen, and withdrawn to some degree by menopause.