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  • The kids are out of school, you've finished your multiple rounds of graduation parties, and women who don't work in cabarets or on certain territorially guarded corners of your city's streets are wearing white pants again, with various levels of underwear show-through.

    Jilly Gagnon: Makeover For Summer...Affectations! 2009

  • Not only do these create "telltale ridges, wrinkly or 'puffy' nipples," but they obviously show-through via camera flash.

    Leslie Goldman: Going Upper Commando in Style 2009

  • Double-layer cups provide shape and support and eliminate show-through Bali® Double Support®

    The Latest Scoop from StyleBakery.com 2010

  • Stones piled in the Cueva de Foradada to block off the inner chamber (lines at top right show-through from sketch on next page)

    A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe 2009

  • If there are pinholes, return with the sash brush and make cross strokes over any show-through.

    Berks county news 2009

  • More discreet were whisper-thin sweaters with built-in, show-through bras - one in green over a frothy tiered skirt.

    The latest WWD Headlines 2009

  • You may prefer (as I do) to wear full-height rather than low-rise pants, to eliminate any shirt show-through.

    Men's Second Style 2009

  • "telltale ridges, wrinkly or 'puffy' nipples," but they obviously show-through via camera flash.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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