In England they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

VON DREHLE: A shirtwaist is a woman ` s blouse, basically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

Over the shirtwaist was a natty jacket, elbow-sleeved, and to the elbows she wore gloves of imitation suede.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

The shirtwaist was a woman’s garment with a mannish touch: a buttoned front.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Ladies Garment Workers Union.] Reference

He was hugely influential, and he loved the shirtwaist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

She fiddled with her shirtwaist, rubbing a spot of something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beloved]

She settled in New York City and worked in shirtwaist factories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Information for Rose Pesotta] Reference

If the shirtwaist was hers, how did that fellow get possession of it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] Reference

Marla smiled fondly at her relative attired in a homemade shirtwaist dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hair Raiser]

"I-- I'm all right now," she said, softly, straightening out her shirtwaist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference

The lighter weights are used for ladies 'shirtwaist suits, men's white trousers, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

A bottle of ink had lost its stopper, with disastrous consequences to my best shirtwaist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

They soldiered on in the shirtwaist business in New York City for all through World War I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

The following morning, approximately fifteen thousand shirtwaist workers took to the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uprising of 20,000 (1909).] Reference

They were the owners of the Triangle Waist Company, the shirtwaist kings, as they were known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

She got a brown dress to travel in, and a shirtwaist or two; but beyond that she dared not go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

She stuffed a handful of stale doughnuts inside her shirtwaist, together with a lump of cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man for Himself] Reference

By the end of the strike, 85 percent of all shirtwaist makers in New York had joined the ILGWU.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uprising of 20,000 (1909).] Reference

"I want to know something about this, Miss Langmore," and he brought out the torn and wet shirtwaist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective] Reference

LAMB: What were woman in those days at age 17, 18 working in the shirtwaist factory getting per hour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

Many of their goals were advanced by the largely successful 13-week shirtwaist workers 'strike of 1909.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: Today's 100th Anniversary of Women's Day] Reference

Once in New York, Pesotta began working in various shirtwaist factories, and struggled to learn English.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Pesotta.] Reference

And the next day, to the astonishment of New York, 15,000 or 20,000 shirtwaist workers went out on strike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triangle: The Fire That Changed America] Reference

Ruth's green polka-dotted shirtwaist, unbecoming to her dumpy figure, showed the wrinkles from the suitcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

She was wearing a shirtwaist and skirt that had the bright colors and fullness you associate with peasant dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Card Trick] Reference

She wore a dark red flannel shirtwaist, a divided skirt of black wool, a suede jacket and black cap like a jockey's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

I wiped my bleeding hands on my trousers, tucked my shirtwaist in, and tidied my hair, which had been sadly disarranged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

Like a sculptor, Lars builds in padded curves at the hip of argyle sweater dresses and sews bras into shirtwaist dresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow Coalition] Reference

shirtwaists and nurses 'uniforms: Covering rings; making shirtwaist cuff; making shirtwaist placket; putting on neckbands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Trade School] Reference

In front her shirtwaist appeared cool and white, at the sleeves it flowered alarmingly into something like an India shawl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

Philip eyed with furtive approval the modish shirtwaist, turned back at the full brown throat, and the heavily coiled hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] Reference

Red cheeks, bright eyes, ordinary nose, round chin, long braid, white shirtwaist, tan skirt -- nothing but an average freshman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference

On the night of November 22, Sarah, shifting restlessly in her chair, looked around at the enormous crowd of shirtwaist workers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)] Reference

The next day, 15,000 shirtwaist workers walked out of their workplaces and demanded a 20 percent pay raise and a 52-hour workweek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moroccan Factory Fire Kills 55 on Eve of Workers Memorial Day] Reference

A summer idea invented for the purpose of making a girl's shirtwaist something like a barb-wire fence with a full view of the scenery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference

With the arrest of Mary Drier and the publicity it brought the strike, the movement of shirtwaist workers into the union became pronounced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)] Reference