From their page, Swimsuits You’ll Want to Be Seen In
see this. Why couldn’t they put a model in this one? Because no one wants to be seen in it!
High waists are Empire-style, just below the breast, and do just as much to create a big-bellied look as the hip-hugging biker-jeans and “drop-waists” have been doing throughout recent memory. Empire waists create a bulge underneath them, as hip-belted clothing creates a huge belly above it. Want a false pregnancy? Get an Empire-waisted dress or blouse. Then you can pretend that you have an illicit bun-in-the-oven, and are awaiting a Victorian-style punishment. Fashion-victims are masochists, are they not?
~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton, 2008