tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post9089075122359586420..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: A Shirt Is a Terrible Thing to WaistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-32038345472016109222013-09-12T10:46:08.039-05:002013-09-12T10:46:08.039-05:00When I read about the Triangle Shirt-Waist Factory...When I read about the Triangle Shirt-Waist Factory fire as a kid, I assumed that a "shirt-waist" was some variety of shirt. The usages above suggest that it was some variety of waist. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-83619594487320898342013-09-11T23:29:39.905-05:002013-09-11T23:29:39.905-05:00I'm sure I skipped right over "waist"...I'm sure I skipped right over "waist" in those instances, too. And now we know. <br /><br />I've also come across "shirt-waist" in a notorious context, <a href="http://www.csun.edu/~ghy7463/mw2.html" rel="nofollow">The Triangle Shirt-Waist Fire of 1911</a>. "Upon finding that they could not use the doors to escape and the fire burning at their clothes and hair, the girls of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, aged mostly between 13 and 23 years of age, jumped 9 stories to their death. One after another the girls jumped to their deaths on the concrete over one hundred of feet below. Sometimes the girls jumped three and four at a time."Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.com