straight-front

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Now me, I've got a kimono nature but a straight-front job, and it's kept me young.

Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926
A dull city of straight-front unvaried streets is New York.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
Fellows 'funerals; from Key West cigars, and from cold dinner plates; from transcendentalism, and from the New Freedom; from fat women in straight-front corsets, and from Philadelphia cream cheese; from _The

A Book of Burlesques 1918
Now me, I've got a kimono nature but a straight-front job, and it's kept me young.

Buttered Side Down 1911
An 'she was on the eve o' floppin 'back into the prunin' scizzor points up, when I scrambled over the counter, breakin 'my straight-front in two, which she's welcome to, poor thing!

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
John Hopkins sat, after a compressed dinner, in his glove-fitting straight-front flat.

The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
She has the high-ratted pompadour, and the exaggerated straight-front.

The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
I've got no more use for a valet than I have for a pair of straight-front corsets. "

T. Tembarom 1913