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A moderately-sized rectangular gap between clothing that exposes the character's stomach. The total amount of exposed skin should equal no more than half the stomach’s surface; with waistline bottomwear the gap ends slightly above the navel, though it can shift to accommodate high-waist clothing.
Use midriff when there are regular clothes above (e.g. a crop top) and below (e.g. pants) the stomach, but the stomach is bare or visible beneath see-through clothing. "Regular" is not limited to real apparel.
Midriff is not/should not be used for:
- A substitute for stomach, or implicated by it.
- Characters that are topless female/topless male, bottomless, or nude.
- Characters wearing any form of swimsuit, most often bikinis, bikini top only, or bikini bottom only.
- Characters wearing any type of underwear, such as bras and panties, unless they're visible beneath normal clothing.*
- An upper body shot that features qualifying topwear, but no bottom is visible.
Note: Midriff may still apply to otherwise disqualifying clothing if it is underwear worn as outerwear, such as sports bras, camisoles, tank tops worn with panties, etc.
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