# Bloomingdale's Waist (Baby Coats, Baby Jackets, Baby Vests and 3 more) Field Guide

> Interior drawstring, if concealed. Drawstring waist, if exposed. Max character limit of 254 characters (including spaces).

**Waist** is an optional feature bullet on Bloomingdale's Marketplace for the kids and baby outerwear department. It tells the shopper how the waist of a jacket, coat, snowsuit or outerwear bottom is built: elasticized, drawstring, ribbed, belted, and whether a drawstring is hidden inside the garment or visible on the outside. Bloomingdale's prints the value as a bullet on the product page.

Bloomingdale's guidance for this department is short: write "Interior drawstring" when the drawstring is concealed and "Drawstring waist" when it is exposed. Every other waistband construction follows the same one-phrase form, with a ceiling of 254 characters including spaces.

## The rules

| Rule | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Required | No. Leave it blank for a jacket with a plain, unshaped waist |
| Level | Variant in Osello, but Bloomingdale's shows one bullet per style, so the phrase must match across the grouping |
| Length | 254 characters at most, including spaces |
| Form | One phrase, no trailing period |
| Drawstrings | Say interior (concealed) or exposed, and whether it is functional |

Constructions worth naming: elasticized, wide elastic, drawstring, ribbed, banded, belted, smocked, shirred, ruched, tie, contoured, high-waisted. Combine them when the garment has more than one ("Elasticized waistband with interior drawstring").

## Examples

| Value | Verdict | Reason |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Elasticized waistband with interior drawstring | Good | Construction plus concealed drawstring |
| Drawstring waist | Good | Bloomingdale's phrasing for an exposed drawstring |
| Wide ribbed waistband | Good | Names the width and the knit |
| Adjustable | Weak | Does not say how it adjusts |
| Cinched waist in a pretty pink | Weak | Marketing, and it describes one colorway |

## Common mistakes

- Writing "drawstring" without saying whether it is interior or exposed.
- Calling a decorative cord functional when the source does not say so.
- Describing a belt here. The department has its own [Belt](/marketplaces/bloomingdales/fields/fnb9-kids-and-baby-outerwear) field.
- Giving different phrases to different sizes of the same style.

## How Osello fills this field

Waist is a variant-level field in Osello's Bloomingdale's taxonomy, so each size and color carries a value, and Osello writes the same phrase across the grouping because Bloomingdale's feature bullets cannot vary between variants. It reads the product description first, then the attributes, then the images, and leaves the field blank when none of them describe the waistband. The value is capped at 254 characters and never ends in a period. Other outerwear attributes are in the [Bloomingdale's field directory](/marketplaces/bloomingdales/fields).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Waist required for kids and baby outerwear on Bloomingdale's?

No. It is optional. Fill it when the garment has a shaped or adjustable waist and leave it blank for a straight-cut jacket.

### How do I describe a hidden drawstring?

Use "Interior drawstring", or fold it into the construction: "Elasticized waistband with interior drawstring". Save "Drawstring waist" for a drawstring that shows on the outside.

### Can each size have its own Waist value?

The field is stored per variant, but Bloomingdale's shows one set of bullets per style, so keep the phrase identical for every size and color of the grouping.