1.   Ashley now tugged at the belt which cinched the waist of her amber-coloured silk shift dress.

2.   She had dressed very carefully in a plain white cotton shift dress with scoop neckline, short sleeves, and flat silver sandals.

3.   Almost to a woman, the advisory committee members loathed a cotton pique shift dress the company was producing in black.

4.   A zipped-front shift dress had a bloused back.

5.   Calvin Klein showed sleeveless V-neck and scoop-neck shift dresses alongside less retro tank dresses.

6.   Carolina Herrera showed cropped cardigans over A-line dresses and Adrienne Vittadini showed sleeveless shift dresses.

7.   For spring, that means slitting the front, back or side of shift dresses, and showing white leather dresses with raised seams or cutouts in circular patterns.

8.   Geometric lines or raised seams give a special effect to simple shift dresses and narrow skirts that fall several inches below the knee.

9.   Jackets and coats are cut to fall straight as a ruler over shift dresses with H-shaped contrasting seams or over flat-front trousers with full legs.

10.   Shift dresses, shirt dresses and sleeveless dresses coupled with crochet or spandex jackets are fashionable finds for the mother-to-be.