Thesaurus results for SHIRTWAIST

shirtwaist

noun

as in housedress

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Recent Examples of shirtwaist Between its pleats, lace detailing, and soft peplum design, the shirt has the DNA of a pintuck or shirtwaist blouse, but the front tie design gives it a sexier, romantic appeal. —

Irene Richardson, InStyle, 1 June 2026 Ballet flats, separates, the shirtwaist dress, spaghetti straps on evening gowns, strapless swimsuits and athletic-friendly designs were among her creations. —

Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 10 June 2025 In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat. —

Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025 About 18 years ago, thick poison ivy covered 64 headstones in Staten Island’s Baron Hirsch Cemetery, including the one belonging to Beckie Neubauer, a 19-year-old Austrian immigrant who died in the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire. —

Maria Cramer, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025 One day in March of 1911—the same month as the infamous Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City that trapped and killed 146 workers—a woman named Alice Hamilton arrived at the Sangamon Street works, a lead-smelting plant on Chicago’s East Side, and asked to take a look around. —

Daniel Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025 Four other structures, including a two-story shirtwaist home built in 1916, exist on the block. —

Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2025 The workshop produced shirtwaists, Edwardian-style women’s blouses that were, by then, going out of style. —

Fiona Alison Duncan, ARTnews.com, 30 Dec. 2024 But rather than an imitation of life as it was depicted in Sirk’s films, all mannered transatlantic speech and swishing shirtwaist dresses, Moore takes the assignment dead seriously. —

Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024

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These styles—like the retro housedress—are from another era of fashion that’s catching up as a trend today, so we’re thrilled to see that this cozy, refined staple of mid-century sleepwear is having a little renaissance.

— Clint Davis, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
Spring/Summer 2023 collection was sunny, optimistic, and breezy—no doubt lead by its hero piece, the signature nightgown, a misnomer for the flowy, bohemian housedress that put the brand on the map.

— Lauren Caruso, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Aug. 2022