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  • If you're worried about whether someone can see you have breasts – guess what.... your low-neck line sweater already tells the tale!

    Body scanners can store, send images, group says 2010

  • Some forty-five years later, when Harriet Lane -- the niece and White House hostess of the bachelor President James Buchanan (and the first to be called "First Lady") popularized what was called the "low-neck lace bertha" it set off something of a popular style -- yet when her immediate successor Mary Lincoln wore shoulderless, armless dresses, she was criticized as "showing off her bosom."

    Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Hello Dolley! And Jackie and Mamie and Nancy....A Brief History of Showing 'Skin' In The White House 2009

  • It is unmistakably that of a baby, the low-neck singlet is the same as seen in the still frames of Abbas Ahmad Hashim's body, and the legs appear to be bare, compatible with the shorts seen in those frames.

    Conclusive evidence? Richard 2006

  • It appears to have the same low-neck singlet that clothes Abbas Ahmad Hashem's body, and the legs appear to be bare, compatible with the shorts seen in those frames.

    Appendix 2 - The "reburying" controversy Richard 2006

  • Then come covers with lovely ladies in low-neck dresses on the tops — and the room so cold, anyhow.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • "She had a very plain face, half-shut eyes, and hair curled all over her head; she was dressed in a badly-cut, low-neck pink silk, with white muslin over it; and she danced quadrilles very awkwardly, being withal so near-sighted that she could hardly see her partner."

    The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees Mary Caroline Crawford

  • "Ben wants to air his spike-tailed coat and low-neck vest," said Kit.

    Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

  • But my brain reeled indeed when I saw Fiammetta, her hair done in the last Parisian style, her low-neck gown the essence of modern chic.

    The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • The gown had a village low-neck -- that is, it was a trifle V'd at the throat.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Nevertheless she wore a low-neck dress on Thursday evening, one as daring as the extremely daring fashions of that year permitted an unmarried woman to wear.

    The Price She Paid. 1911

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