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n. - The hem formed by the lower edge of garment that ends at the upper thighs.

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  • West and east the view was the same; though the blue hipline was lacking in those directions.
  • If you dropped the skirt length, you had to drop the hipline of the top for it to look right.
  • You can take any straight-dress pattern sheath or, for me, princess line, seamed at the hip or not, and put a row of Big Decorative Buttons at the hipline.
  • Here and there in the collar, I put little violet satin bows, the streamers coming down from underneath the collar to the hipline of the dress, as if the bows had been...
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