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Article: How to wear the new high-waisted pants: forget hip-huggers; after several seasons of a low profile, pants are going high-rise. (Bazar Solutions).
- Article from:
- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
- Author:
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When Maggie Rizer stepped out onto Nicolas Ghesquiere's fall runway for Balenciaga wearing faded jeans with a top button that landed smack in the middle of her torso, just missing her ribs, the fashion flock's gut reaction was to suck in their tummies. Ghesquiere had done the unthinkable: He had outed the waist.
Notoriously susceptible to fashion favor--sometimes corseted into the spotlight as the season's star, other times vanishing altogether-the waist has spent the past several seasons incognito, courtesy of low-rise trousers and jeans that lounged at the hipbone and cleared the belly button by inches. And the chic set liked it that way. Gain a few pounds, ...