标题: Shirtwaist or Simply, Waist [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 3-24-2011 12:20 标题: Shirtwaist or Simply, Waist 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Ruth La Ferla, Triangle Fire: Liberating Clothing Made in Confinement. New York Times, Mar 24, 2011.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/shirtwaist-fire-liberating-clothing-made-in-confinement/?ref=fashion
Note:
(a) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
(Mar 25, 1911; Manhattan; caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent immigrant Jewish women aged sixteen to twenty-three)
(b) waist (clothing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist_(clothing)
A shirtwaist has evolved from "a separate blouse constructed like a shirt" to "a dress with the upper portion (the bodice and sleeves) fashioned like a man's shirt, with a turnover collar and buttons down the front."
You can see both in images.google.com.
(c) have legs. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/have-legs
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