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The Peg-Top Silhouette: Hips Don’t Lie but They Certainly Tease
The peg-top silhouette explodes at the hips, strangles at the ankles, and turns every corridor into a catwalk of suspense. It purrs with exotic fantasies, crackles with modernist geometry, and teases authority while giggling at fragility. Was it a bold promise of freedom, a sly trap of elegance, or simply fashion’s wicked joke on women’s desire to dazzle? A century later, its cheeky contradictions still intoxicate designers chasing danger in beauty.