The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak - which explains the bold jackets, short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses.

Fergie paired her figure-hugging dress with simple black t-bar heels, minimal makeup (for her), and a cool chunky bangle.

One of his signature images is of a woman in a figure-hugging dress and requisite high heels bending forward ever so slightly and away from the camera.

Middle-class women think little of attending dinners in figure-hugging dresses and fashionably streaked hair, covering themselves with cloaks and head scarves only in public.

Berardi is known for his "sensual, figure-hugging dresses" and a "striking, classical, dressed-up" style featuring "advanced fabrics and manufacturing techniques."

Lucien cut a dash in an open-necked shirt with some "dirty dancing" with Amy in a figure-hugging dress to celebrate surviving eviction.

The models, clad in thong underwear, feather boas or figure-hugging dresses, had appeared in the window of a lingerie store there, Spellbound, since September.

At the wedding, Middleton's white figure-hugging dress, which, like the bride's, was created by Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen, was highly praised in the media.

But another Middleton also shimmied into the limelight, encased in a figure-hugging dress that clung to every curve and was "tighter than a coat of paint", according to one onlooker.

The same could not be said of his companion - a tall, ravishing blonde with almond-shaped eyes and legs that went on forever, displayed to stunning effect in a little black figure-hugging dress that ended several inches above her knees.

Demi Lovato looked amazing in a figure-hugging dress at the MTV VMAs Sunday night, but some Twitter haters thought she gained weight, prompting the 19-year-old singer and actress to defend herself.