The pockets are placed over the side seams at the hem line, and there is a heavy snap at the top of each pocket.

(In very speculative markets, hem lines rise along with share prices.)

In another sense, however, the Best-Dressed List seems absurdly quaint when all the rules (hem lines, proportions, the right shoes) have been thrown out.

However, the hem line of the baju actually runs to the middle of the lap.

Students are suppressed by a governing system that has made everything political, from hem lines to hijabs, from the Koran to the curriculum.

This had a higher hem line, and was much less baggy.

The hem line shot down to her ankles, evening-gown length.

The lords of women's fashions, gathered in solemn conclave in Rio, had decreed that hem lines would go down and that navels would again be covered.

So the patterned belt looks more flowing and liquid which the hem line of the dress accentuates.

Gimbel took a conservative approach to fashion, decrying vanishing hem lines and exposed flesh.