Agatha Bas wears a pointed stomacher under a front-lacing, high-waisted black dress.

In the adjoining small room, there is an exhibition of white-face mannequins wearing distinctively Georgian high-waisted dresses.

Women's styles of the era were high-waisted dresses with long straight skirts, cut low to reveal the neck and shoulders.

They adapted their high-waisted dresses and hats that jut out like cattle horns from the wives of Victorian-era missionaries.

In 1959, his work culminated in the Empire line, with high-waisted dresses and coats cut like kimonos.

The fashion for white muslin high-waisted dresses continued until Napoleon's coronation in 1804.

In yet another beginning of a story, the stylish Odile chafes when her boyfriend and mother do not compliment her high-waisted, square-necked dress.

Jane was wearing a fashionable, high-waisted dress of sprigged muslin.

In sturdy double-faced fabrics that hold their shape without interfacing, they look marvelous over high-waisted dresses or leather skirts.

She is wearing a high-waisted dress of embroidered gold with tight-fitting sleeves.