Miss Flossie Lane stood there, very becomingly dressed in a tailor-made costume of covert coating.

It was thought that nothing better suited the occasion than the immediate adoption of the costume as well as the title of beggary.

You need boast indeed of the superior liberties allowed you, when they lock you up in a box!'" Lady Mary had a Turkish dress made for her, which she frequently wore, when she found that the English costume made her unpleasantly conspicuous.

These men were dressed in a somewhat European costume, some of them with the Queen's medal on their breasts.

When we came down from the mountain we went to the house of the Resident on the shore, and there I found all the world of Penang assembled to meet me; among them a quantity of Chinese in full mandarin costume.

On these nights the pit is boarded over and joins the stage; the vast area of the whole theater forming a ball-room of magnificent proportions, which, brilliantly lighted, and crowded with thousands of gay maskers attired in every variety of colour and costume, forms a sight not easily forgotten.

Great attention is paid to costume and general effect."

It was a tall and full-bosomed young lady in a gay multi-coloured costume, and gloves and a sunshade and a striking hat.

Her costume, though vulgar and very ill-made, was effective at a little distance; her form and movements gave it a fictitious worth.

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Furthermore, the attention of the gendarmes might have been drawn more easily to the quaintly caparisoned Indians temporarily in from the country, where city fashions do not prevail, than to those who through long residence in the city had learned to adopt a costume more in accordance with European notions.

Gazing in awe at this sign were Indian boys from some remote Andean village where the custom is to wear ponchos with broad fringes, brightly colored, and knitted caps richly decorated with tasseled tops and elaborate ear-tabs, a costume whose design shows no trace of European influence.

None of those whose European costume proclaimed a white or mixed ancestry stopped to pray or make obeisance.

On the other hand, all those, without exception, who were clothed in a native costume, which betokened that they considered themselves to be Indians rather than whites, paused for a moment, gazing at the ancient city, removed their hats, and said a short prayer.

The story is more than apocryphal, for Selwyn is not the only person of whom it has been told; and he was even accused, according to Wraxall, of going to executions in female costume.

He caused the class of his own choosing to employ the title of proprætor and to hold office for as much longer than a year as should please him, wearing the military costume and having a sword with which they are empowered to punish soldiers.

He also presided at the Dionysia, the greatest office within the gift of the people, and arrayed in the local costume carried it through brilliantly.

When he had attended to this matter Severus entered Rome; he went as far as the gates on horseback and in cavalry costume, but from that point on changed to citizen's garb and walked.

Under this head he says, "Very much would I prefer that our literature should appear even in the guise of the awkward, speculating, guessing, but still original, strong-minded American Yankee, than to see it mincing in the costume of a London dandy.

First, came the court band, clothed in red velvet, and followed by three heralds, in old Spanish costume, magnificently decorated hats and feathers, and black velvet suits.

This is not, however, his ordinary dress; he is said to change his mode of dressing oftener than his wife, and sometimes to wear the Persian costume, sometimes to envelop himself in cashmere shawls, as his fancy may be.

The rest of Miss Burnaby's costume consisted of a high black silk dress, trimmed with splendid point lace.

SEE Costume silhouettes.

Man dressed in Alpine mountain climbing costume holding on to strap in subway with his staff and reading the tabloid newspapers.