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The waist is not above the belly button- that is your rib cage; now, I know we all have different shapes, and some have longer backs, thicker waists so it's not as defined as all that, but your waist is where a pair of pants (not low rise) START which is right below the belly button and just above the hips. That is why that is called the WAIST measurement- standard measurements for women are breast, waist and hips, so the hips clearly are not the waist, but you also don't wear your dress pants up on your rib cage, so obviously the waist is in between where the curve is. /images/graemlins/drunk.gif
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Mermaid, I'm trying to understand what you mean. Do you mean that if you (personally) were to measure your waist, you would measure underneath the curve of the waist of your body? I was thinking that RealLuvs was referring to her physical body unclothed, and not where her pants or skirts would rest. So when I refer to a waist, I mean the area on her body where a woman would measure if she were trying to track weight loss and loss of inches in her waist each week, or where a dressmaker would measure when fitting her for a dress.
Here's the description from a health site:
Measuring Your Waist Circumference
Measure your waist without holding the tape too tightly (or too loosely). As a rough guide, your waist is the narrowest part of your trunk, or approximately 1 inch above your belly button.
WeightLoss.com
That's what I think of when I think of a waist, but your definition is different from mine. /images/graemlins/confused.gif
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Right, most dress pants and skirts (mainly not jeans or casual) sit right over the top of the hips- that is why it's called a waistband. When I said the curve, that is what I meant, the smallest part of the trunk. /images/graemlins/wink.gif