Possible Clues:

• Like some gowns
• Like some elegant gowns
• Type of dress with belt getting smaller
• Sort of dress said to restrain a disciplinarian?
• Vessel, part sunken, holds up unsupported
• Characters from the east younger, and with no visible means of support
• Capsized vessel, part submerged, holding without support
• Worry about itinerant pal lacking support
• Backward regions taking off, though lacking some support
• Kind of gown