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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.
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Not only do these create "telltale ridges, wrinkly or 'puffy' nipples," but they obviously show-through via camera flash.
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Double-layer cups provide shape and support and eliminate show-through Bali® Double Support®
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Stones piled in the Cueva de Foradada to block off the inner chamber (lines at top right show-through from sketch on next page)
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If there are pinholes, return with the sash brush and make cross strokes over any show-through.
Berks county news 2009
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More discreet were whisper-thin sweaters with built-in, show-through bras - one in green over a frothy tiered skirt.
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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
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"telltale ridges, wrinkly or 'puffy' nipples," but they obviously show-through via camera flash.
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It is extremely important to distinguish between an offset (i.e. a mirror image left when a book is closed for centuries and ink or pigment from one page rubs off onto the facing page), show-through (a mirror-image ghost of text on the other side of the page), and erased ink (non-reversed faded text made visible).
Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript D.N. O’Donovan 2024
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