Their dress is a kind of half vest, and they carry parasols made of peacocks feathers to shade them from the sun, and are surrounded by great trains of servants.

Her evening-dresses, though plain and inexpensive, were always dainty and fresh, but she wore her habit as long as it would hold together, and cared nothing for the fact that her hat was stained by the rain: they were her "working clothes," and strictly considered as such.

The dress is merely a linen shift, high to the throat, half-way down the leg, crimped from top to bottom, the linen being soaked in water with as much strong starch as it can hold, crimped with long laths of wood, and then put into the oven to dry, whence it issues stiff and hard as a board.

His dress was a plain suit of black cloth, with grey worsted stockings.

His dress was elegance itself.

The modern dress of Harlequin, rarely seen save in pantomimes, is a very brilliant close-fitting costume, composed of small triangles of bright cloth covered with spangles.

The dress was of some cheap material, sandals on feet, and a kind of long shawl worn over the head and thrown over the shoulder.

It is the complaint of many men of our times that the dress of women is a very costly affair.

The head-dress is a turban.

His dress was a plain mitre of gold tissue, a rich, garment of gold and crimson, embroidered, a splendid clasp of gold, about six inches long by four wide, set with precious stones, upon his breast.

The wedding-dress is classic, a simple, very long dress of white satin, and generally a tulle veil over the face.

The lace for Miss Minnesota's lingerie; the jewelled comb in Miss Colorado's hair; the hat that would grace Miss New Hampshire; the dress for Madam Delawareall were the results of their farsighted selection.

But that dress might have been his daughter's, even his wife's.

Mrs. Hubert's unchallengeable slogan was that dress should be an expression of individuality, and by dint of utilizing all the details of the attire of herself and of her two daughters, down to the last ruffle and buttonhole, she found this medium quite sufficient to express the whole of her own individuality, the conspicuous force of which was readily conceded by any observer of the lady's life.

And since his dress is all the fashion, And since he's very dark and tall, I think that, out of pure compassion, I'll get papa to go and call.

I had to admit that the dress and hat as described were almost certainly the ones I had seen on the bed in Jennie Brice's room the day before she disappeared.

Her working dress is usually a long gray linen or blue flannel blouse, reaching nearly from head to foot.

His features, pale and haggard, showed the fatigue and privations which he had endured; but his dress was [Footnote 1: Carte's Letters, i. 345.

"My old dress is jest as dirty as the floor.

His dress was uniformly of superfine drab broadcloth, made in the old style of a plain coat, with straight collar and long waistcoat, and a broad-brimmed hat.

The dress with the Russian sable bands went the way of all Hahn & Lohman tragedies.

The native Indian dress is an evolution, a survival from long years of wild life.

The only dress of the men is a girdle encircling the loins.

Even the dress he wore was the work of the provincial artist in his little native place.

Her dress was a triumph of tactful discretion, sensible, but not too "touristy"'Miss Winchelsea had a great dread of being "touristy"and her Baedeker was carried in a cover of grey to hide its glaring red.