If you stock your wardrobe up with tunics and other loose-fit blouses, add figure-flattering structure by wrapping a sash or skinny belt around your natural waist.
Zangewa's black Venus, however, is rising from post-apartheid Johannesburg, its towering skyscrapers dwarfed by a smiling, dancing black woman, her mid-body wrapped by a sash that reads, "surrender whole-heartedly to your complexity".
Another friend of Fujihara's, a plumber, sculpted a bust of Obama, microphone in hand, and wrapped a traditional Japanese sash around its head.
Who, for instance, is going to notice the gentle swell of your belly when around your waist there is wrapped an embroidered obi (sash) so beautiful it would not look out of place on a cathedral altar?
Honestly, more jobs should require people to wear a sash.
Among the rows of sombre suits were a few clerical robes, a red-and-white checked Bedouin headdress, and the distinctive red fez, wrapped in a white sash, of a scholar from Al Azhar University.
At one point during "Mein Herze," she was wrapped in a red sash that evoked a remorseful sinner's torment.
The Rev J. Randolph Alexander, an Episcopal priest, wrapped the couple's hands together with a sash to signify their public tying of the knot.
The dress was nothing, really – just a few yards of fabric with two sleeves and a wide wrap sash.
Dressed in short black bloomers, their waists wrapped in red sashes, the women high-stepped and Riverdanced around the room with linked arms, occasionally separating out to point and gesture gnomically.
