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They had two very tight armholes you could put your hands and arms into.
She slid her hands through the armholes, and adjusted the shoulders.
He pulled it down on the right and eased his hook out through the armhole.
He helped her find the armholes, then zipped up the suit.
With its deep armholes, the dress bares a bit of the back.
She could feel the hot flesh being squeezed into the armholes of her dress.
He replaced it in the big inside pocket, pushed his hands back out through the armholes.
They notice five armholes and realize that every room was set up for the victims to work together to survive the game.
I don't use it to communicate that an armhole is narrow this season.
As a jacket, he wore a burlap bag with armholes.
The shoulders should be narrow, the armholes high, the collar small and the sleeves straight.
She drifted up to him and held out one armhole for him to put his arm into, then the other.
Instead, it has wide-cut armholes in the sides to accommodate the arms.
Some are covered with brilliant stones while others have jewels at the neck and armholes.
Struggling to find the armholes inside her jump suit, Veronica took a deep breath.
An armhole of the waistcoat went round all four of them!
Deeper armholes on the women's coats, for example, will accommodate a suit underneath.
In some cases, the armhole is cut unusually high to ensure free movement at the armpit.
Fallon put her arm into one armhole and then the other, focused on his pleased expression.
I cut armholes in a refrigerator box and walked around the neighborhood handing out punch cards.
"That gives you a giant neckline and huge armholes."
Left and below: The armholes are trickier, though, but she gets there in the and.
She picked at the armhole of her backless gown.
He looked around the office, spotted his jacket on the back of a chair, grabbed it and began sliding one hand into an armhole.
A shoulder seam runs from the neckline to the armscye, usually at the highest point of the shoulder.
In sewing, the armscye is the armhole, the fabric edge to which the sleeve is sewn.
However, as self-proclaimed experts copied each other, the term "armscye" eventually became widely enough used by home sewers to gain general acceptance.
A side-back seam runs from the armscye to the waist, and fits the garment to the curve below the shoulder blades.
The length of the armscye is the total length of this edge; the width is the distance across the hole at the widest point.
The neologism "armscye" was created by readers who concatenated the orphaned fragments "arm" and "s" with the corrupt "cye".
Fabric is evenly gathered using two or more lengths of basting stitches, and the top of each pleat is whipstitched onto the waistband or armscye.
The American version had a "smooth roll of sleeve fabric where it was stitched into the armscye" whereas the English version had "tiny puckers from stitch tucks".
It is commonly used in clothing to manage fullness, as when a full sleeve is attached to the armscye or cuff of a shirt, or when a skirt is attached to a bodice.
A dolman sleeve is a sleeve set into a very low armscye; in fact, the armscye may extend to the waistline, in which case there will be no underarm seam in the blouse.
The new suit was softer and more flexible in construction than the suits of the previous generation; extra fabric in the shoulder and armscye, light padding, a slightly nipped waist, and fuller sleeves tapered at the wrist resulted in a cut with flattering folds or drapes front and back that enhanced a man's figure.