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- noun Plural form of
cincher .
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Examples
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Last night at Milk Studios in the meatpacking, a pair of Chinese dancing dragons opened a show that featured the designers' signature corsets bespangled and beaded, sequined and jeweled, tube dresses, cat suits, cinchers and capelets; a black and white "poncho" would be fabulous on say, Liza Minelli.
Regina Weinreich: Fashion Week: Night Out with The Blonds Regina Weinreich 2011
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A Google search for "Michelle Obama belt" unearths 1.25 million images: She favors wide cinchers of the sort Ms. Beckett suggests steel a woman's posture.
The Tyranny of the Belt Christina Binkley 2012
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Last night at Milk Studios in the meatpacking, a pair of Chinese dancing dragons opened a show that featured the designers' signature corsets bespangled and beaded, sequined and jeweled, tube dresses, cat suits, cinchers and capelets; a black and white "poncho" would be fabulous on say, Liza Minelli.
Regina Weinreich: Fashion Week: Night Out with The Blonds Regina Weinreich 2011
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The dreaded high-waist elastic band with matching circulation-cinchers on the arms.
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Ladies — search Ebay or vintage stores for old-fashioned medical cinchers with fan lacing.
Boing Boing 2007
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Heres another consideration: Ive never used a real corset, but I have worn waist cinchers a company called Squeem or Squeam makes them and thyre great for lifting the boobs as well; you can get them from Amazon.
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The shift was also meant to free a woman from the need for waist-cinchers, long-line bras and girdles that many 50s styles required.
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On the body shape issue: women in the 40s and 50s started wearing waist-cinchers and girdles in their teens, so many did have a 10-inch difference between their bust measurement and their waist measurement.
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For example, wearing underwear such as corsets or waist-cinchers, petticoats, bloomers, or crinoline as outerwear are common Ero traits.
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Dior used to put his of-course-very-thin models in waist cinchers and then pad their hips and busts to get that impossible New Look hourglass, leading Coco Chanel to say "Dior doesn't dress women, he upholsters them."
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