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Black and white photograph of Decita (in backless dress) and the Ernie Holst Orchestra, at the Stork Club, November, 1944.
At any moment, there were thousands of workers standing on assembly lines or sitting in backless chairs, crouching next to large machinery, or jogging between loading bays.
By Alfred Eisenstaedt The New Yorker, May 8, 2000 P. 119 Black and white photograph of Decita (in backless dress) and the Ernie Holst Orchestra, at the Stork Club, November, 1944.
There would be no point: his film has no leading ladies who could disport themselves in backless numbers or lantern-jawed himbos to vogue fatuously before the snappers.
The elegant atmosphere of thirties high life — men in dinner suits, women in backless silk dresses, a black torch singer undulating in a supper club — is enjoyable enough, but Nair can't seem to find the dramatic center of it.
Bloom has a fine eye for emotional particularity — like how seeing your ill and infirm lover padding around in "backless bedroom slippers and green baggy pants" would make you feel equal parts pity and disgust.
Watching the documentary film Ballets Russes last week, I winced as ancient ballerinas, octogenarians if a day, retraced sequences from their Diaghilev-era youth dressed in backless leotards and diaphanous tutus, attitudes struck with dove hands and much dewy simpering.
The nominee for Best Actress in a Television Series left viewers breathless in a backless red dress by Ralph Lauren with a slightly racy cutout in the front.
American brides are dressing more informally, their gowns backless or strapless, sometimes pink or even black.
