decollete

She found a long dinner gown in cream silk, narrowly but deeply decollete beneath an exquisite beaded jacket.

She lists among their virtues their all-important third button, which rides low and can be unfastened for a "very decollete effect.

The tiny rim of lace at a square neckline so decollete she looked in danger of spilling from it at any moment echoed the slashes.

The Brando image and the loose, decollete fit of a man's undershirt on a woman - to say nothing of the illicit pleasure of wearing something overtly male - made the garment provocative.

With their short, decollete Lacroix, Ungaro or Saint Laurent dresses, women wear the whole works - a thumping bib of emeralds, with big drips of earrings and a huge rock of a ring to match."

The perennially decollete violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter adorns concert billboards and subscription brochures promoting her solos with the New York Philharmonic in January and her recording of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" due in November.