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The honest little ring that keeps tabs on every meal you swore was light.
means The fitted strip of fabric at the top of trousers or a skirt that wraps and grips the waist.
from Plain English compound of waist and band, stitched together since the 1500s — the band that bands the waist, no mystery, all function.
Elastic eraRubberized waistbands surged with 20th-century knit comfort wear.
Honest gaugeTightness reads diet truth better than any scale.
Hidden engineeringCurved waistbands hug bodies that straight ones gap on.