So many pleats: pin pleats, cartridge pleats and gathers so fine that they read as pleats.
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With this new fabric, you could get rid of the pleats and lower the waist.
Girbaud, for instance, makes a wool and spandex skirt with an uneven hem, laser cutwork and random, permanent pleats.
At the time, most women's pants were high-waisted, with pleats to give the belly a bit of swelling room.
Outstanding collections included Bottega Veneta, where designer Tomas Maier folded fabric to create pleats and space around the shoulders.
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Bard's EndoCinch is essentially a miniature sewing machine that puts pleats at the junction of the stomach and the esophagus.
Some retailers say they're monitoring the creep of pleats back on the runways, but not jumping to make room for them just yet.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the 46, 000-square-foot futuristic space is sheathed in stainless-steel pleats that alternately run horizontally, vertically and diagonally.
The Regent suits that do have pleats have single "reverse" pleats, meaning the pleat faces away from the fly rather than toward, creating a leaner look.
The poufy pleats of ruching, the velvet's nap and the refractions of silk: Such subject matter wasn't noble or timeless, but noble and timeless didn't interest the Impressionists.
On the flip side, if pleats take off, men with closets full of flat-fronts may feel the need to do a lot of shopping for the new styles, benefiting retailers.
It featured, on the jacket, minimal shoulder padding, dual vents, and a graceful, three-rolled-to-two-button stance (his current favorite lapel style), and, on the pants, singlereverse pleats and one-and-a-quarter-inch-cuffed trouser legs.
Pleats were big in menswear until the mid-'50s, when flat-front pants arrived with that era's slim Continental look, and stayed in vogue, only ending when boxy looks took over in the '80s.
If you get to the Getty Villa, save a few minutes to walk slowly around this proud hero, relishing the curving waterfall of pleats that define the first totally convincing human being created by an artist.
The original purpose of pleats was to allow more fabric for when a man sat down, according to Alan Flusser, author of menswear guidebook "Dressing The Man" and a custom tailor whose credits include Michael Douglas' wardrobe in the original "Wall Street" movie.
Columnar in shape, falling from the shoulders to the ground, with sometimes a silk cord at the waist or under the bust, it is made from China silk that has been hand-worked into thousands of vertical pleats a process invented by Fortuny, and one that invests the silk with both iridescence and a springy eternal life.
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