shirtwaist

• The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry. —  The Great Gatsby / by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Next to her own wedding dress, the silk shirtwaist was the most expensive piece of clothing she had ever owned. —  Paradise Lost
• She had an etiolated neck set on small sloping shoulders above a white shirtwaist, a long white apron, and white stockings. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• Ethel was much more forthcoming, probably because it allowed her to drop the odious paddle and come to have him look her over—her ruffled shirtwaist, her fancy ribbon. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• Her coat had left some wrinkles in her shirtwaist, but she stretched and patted them out. —  The Girls at Mount Morris

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