He told one of my friends that one of his principal functions was to accompany Madame Waddington to all the charity sales, carrying a package of women's chemises under his arm.

Even ladies' chemises were commandeered, and some of the men assured me that a French chemise is quite comfortablein spite of the short sleeves.

The men wear wide drawers with the pink shirt over them; the women have a chemise reaching to the calf of the leg, dirty and coarse, an apron round the waist, sometimes so scanty or so ragged that it will not meet, and a handkerchief tied in a slovenly manner on the head.

The women had two dresses and two chemises each for summer.

"Every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odourous her chemise.

Their clothing is the same as in Luzon; but the women wear no tapis, only a camisa (a short chemise, hardly covering the breast), and a saya, mostly of coarse, stiff guinara, which forms ugly folds, and when not colored black is very transparent.

After a rigmarole, as if she thought it almost too shocking to mention, she said she understood from her maid, who had heard it from the valet de chambre who clears out the bath after I leave, that there never were any wet chemises, and that she was therefore forced to conclude that I got into my tub "toute nue!" I had been so worked up for something dreadful, that I am sorry to say, Mamma, I went into a shriek of laughter.

"Mais je la ferme toujours à clef," I said, and then I asked her if in France they also dried themselves in their wet chemises?

A very short white silk chemise was to be seen under the corset.

The corset fell back at every quick movement; the silk or gauze chemise, which scarcely reached over the breast, dragged up so high that the whole body might be seen as far as the loins.

The Indian servants, who with mats and kneeling cushions followed their mistresses, wore white chemises, bright-colored petticoats, and handkerchiefs folded three-cornerwise over the head and knotted under the chin.

She still led me eagerly on, and I presently came upon a whole region of flat boxes, each about two feet square, and nine inches high, made of very thin laths, packed to the roof; and about a-hundred-and-fifty feet from these I saw, where she pointed, another region of bottles, fat-bellied bottles in chemises of wicker-work, stretching away into gloom and total darkness.

"Quand on a tout perdu et qu'on a plus déspoir On prend l'devant sa chemise pour sa farie un mouchoir.

Lovaina, in one of her sixty bright gowns, a white chemise beneath, her feet bare, sat enthroned.

With a knot or two she arranged the pareu so that it was like a chemise, coming to a foot above her knees and covering her bosom.

My dresses was made out of cotton stripes and my chemise was made out of flannelette and my under pants was made out of homespun.

Every spring each man drew two cotton shirts and two pair of homespun woolen trousers, each woman a frock and chemises, and each child clothing or cloth in proportion; and every fall the men drew shirts, trousers and coats, the women shifts, petticoats, frocks and sacks, the children again on a similar scale, and the several families blankets as needed.

No danger of their doing anything but keep very quiet and still in their chemises de nuit, and their one sheet apiece, which was about all that was saved from the conflagrationthat is, for them.

She picked up something from a chair, a handful of new cotton chemises.

This man would be taking a liking to a snuff-box that he had inherited; and that gentlewoman might conceit a favourite chemise that had descended to her.

The pink chemise.

Hence we have white wigs* and grey stockings, medallions and gold chains with coloured handkerchiefs and discoloured tuckers, and chemises de Sappho, which are often worn till they rather remind one of the pious Queen Isabel, than the Greek poetess.

Hence we have white wigs* and grey stockings, medallions and gold chains with coloured handkerchiefs and discoloured tuckers, and chemises de Sappho, which are often worn till they rather remind one of the pious Queen Isabel, than the Greek poetess.

Tout à l'ajustement de son ange de reine, Il habillait l'enfant, et, tandis qu'à genoux Les servantes chaussaient ces pieds charmants et doux Et, les parfumant d'ambre, en lavaient la poussière, Il nouait gauchement la petite brassière, Ayant plus d'habitude aux chemises d'acier.

A Mandoor, or head of one of the campongs, showed me some women's stockings, several of which were marked with the letters S.W.; also two chemises, one with the letters S.W.; two flannel petticoats, a miniature portrait frame (the picture was in the rajah's house,) with many articles of dress of both sexes.