The subject line pretty much says it all, but the pictures of Power Girl on this web page show you what I mean. (They’re pretty much safe for work as long as you aren’t employed by Jerry Falwell.)
Is there a specific name for this fashion choice?
The subject line pretty much says it all, but the pictures of Power Girl on this web page show you what I mean. (They’re pretty much safe for work as long as you aren’t employed by Jerry Falwell.)
Is there a specific name for this fashion choice?
It’s called a “keyhole” although the ensemble in that particular pic is for a very large key, apparently.
Here’s a pic, sans comic book characters:
http://thehousewife.blogsplot.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/neck_heyhole.jpg
I’ve never seen one that extreme in a real garment, but allowing for the comics’ exaggeration convention, I’d probably call it a modified “keyhole”. A classic keyhole collar has two panels which may button or zip up top and the cleavage revealing hole on the bottom.
Keyholes can be anywhere from artsy-fartsy to sweet girl next-door to insert dollar bills here to recieve blowjob, please.
Thank you for posting these.
Many thanks for the answers. I’m trying to describe a far more modest than the Power Girl one, but not knowing the appropriate name it was hard to google for it.
Nitpick: Your second link (the “sweet girl-next-door” version") is technically not so much a “keyhole” neckline as a “notched” neckline, because the two ends of the keyhole aren’t touching. A true keyhole style shows a closed simple curve, topologically speaking, juxtaposed against the uninterrupted curve of the neckline; a notch, on the other hand, cuts away part of the neckline itself. A more extreme version of the notched neckline is shown here.
And if you ask me, PowerGirl in the OP’s picture looks like a blonde version of Robin with a parasitic conjoined twin’s ass growing out of his chest. Weird.
I disagree, although I did consider the notch/keyhole debate before posting. I finally decided that the definitive characteristic of a keyhole neckline, in any pattern book I’ve seen, is that the seamstress must cut a curve out of the front of the pattern piece, not just cut in a straight line down before hemming. The t-shirt I linked to shows a definite, albeit small, curve to the “hole”; it’s not a straight notch. If you brought the two top points together, there would still be a gap - you couldn’t put the whole edge together without stretching or distorting the fabric. I have several identical keyhole T’s which have a tiny button up top to close the points if desired, but generally they’re worn open.
I didn’t know that one of Supergirl’s powers was the ability to have wind swirling her skirt upward even when she’s standing still inside!
It would make Heroes a much more interesting show when they rip off that superpower. 
No one asked you, but I agree the pics are a bit grotesque, golly-I-never-dated-in-high-schoolish. ![]()
WhyNot: Yeah, I see what you mean, but I still maintain that a keyhole is a cutout whose endpoints touch:
A curved/oval notch may be called a “keyhole notch” if you like, as in this description, but it is not an actual keyhole unless the endpoints touch. That’s my couture-nazi take on the subject, anyway. ![]()
This has always been my understanding as well, with a “notch” being something totally different.
Alright, I think I can compromise on “keyhole notch”. Care to broker peace in the Middle East next? ![]()
(Mostly I was trying to find a “keyhole” that wasn’t slutty, to show the range of possibilities.)
Now I’m just wondering what sort of key would fit the keyhole. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a ta-ta key…or maybe I did but just didn’t know what it was.
Yup, but I think a keyhole top is pretty much supposed to be slutty. To show the range of possibilities, as it were. ![]()
Just look in any Tata key cabinet.
That’s great! You truly can learn everything on the Dope.
Ummm… how many dollar bills?
I don’t know what the cutout is called, but the space between closely-pressed breasts is called the Inter-Boobical Groove.
Not to be confused with the Inter-Biblical Groove, which is the space between the Old and New Testaments.
AKA “cleavage”.
A “keyhole”, eh? I just figured it was the entrance to a parallel universe.
Taco Bell.