Waist and Shirt-Waist
A full, round waist often touches an agreeable turn of fortune, while a small, unnatural one means displeasing success and disputes, with admiration through ingenuity for a young woman in a nice shirt-waist. The dream may ask where the fit of your appearance shapes how you're received, and whether what you present is becoming or strained.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for waist and shirt-waist, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a round full waist, denotes that you will be favored by an agreeable dispensation of fortune.
A small, unnatural waist, foretells displeasing success and recriminating disputes.
For a young woman to dream of a nice, ready-made shirt-waist, denotes that she will win admiration through her ingenuity and pleasing manners.
To dream that her shirt-waist is torn, she will be censured for her illicit engagements. If she is trying on a shirt-waist, she will encounter rivalry in love, but if she succeeds in adjusting the waist to her person, she will successfully combat the rivalry and win the object of her love.