How To Use Shantung In A Sentence
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Another unique characteristic is the emergence of shiny materials, such as satin, silk, shantung and duchesse.
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century the Boxers, a secret society, emerged in Shantung and blamed China's problems on foreigners, especially the missionaries who had ventured out of the treaty ports and into the Chinese interior.
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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Fontana of Italy, in a feat never before attempted in pongee, novelty cottons, shantung, or faille, is performing the incredibly difficult REVERSE BOLERO with this pattern.
August 2009
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Our silk combination curtains were the solution: Their sheer tops let in diffused light, while solid shantung bottoms offer screening.
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I like the slubbed silk idea, but I've read somewhere that if you use dupion or shantung with the "lines" sorry, can't remember the proper word running vertically, the seams tend to unravel.
A Perfect Storm - A Dress A Day
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His mother - improbably, for the ferry boat - wore a Leghorn straw hat and matching two-piece in cream silk shantung.
THE QUEST FOR K
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Steeped in culture, hazy summer-weight cottons and shantung silk in luxurious shades of spice, henna and amber are embroidered and lavishly decorated.
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The only problem with the embroidered shantung fabric was how hard it was to match the hummingbirds and delicate bee balm flowers of the valance with the curtain fabric.
Sea Escape
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She in her buttoned-up cheongsams and high heels, he in his sober-toned shantung suits and narrow ties - they repress themselves in the high style of their day and wear their restrictions as badges of honor.
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Black Chambray and Vintage Leaf Two Tone: a classic black chambray front's offset by a back made from a loose-leaf pattern "clearly inspired by Japanese paintings" on '50s-era rayon shantung, not to be confused with rayon Wang Chung, as that only comes in Dance Hall grays.
Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials
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Black Chambray and Vintage Leaf Two Tone: a classic black chambray front's offset by a back made from a loose-leaf pattern "clearly inspired by Japanese paintings" on '50s-era rayon shantung, not to be confused with rayon Wang Chung, as that only comes in Dance Hall grays.
Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials
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She in her buttoned-up cheongsams and high heels, he in his sober-toned shantung suits and narrow ties - they repress themselves in the high style of their day and wear their restrictions as badges of honor.
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She looked incredible, as usual, with her brown ponytail, an off-white silk shantung pants suit, and a gorgeous Fabrice resin flower pin with seed-pearl-tipped stamens.
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I love rich colors and so decided to make my duvet cover out of a very saturated blue shantung silk.
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For Miu Miu she went back to the 1950s, with large geometric prints based on curtain and furnishing fabrics, heavy slubbed silk and shantung.
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Fabrics include canvas in different weights, linens, cotton and silk poplins, piquets, silk canvas, shantung, cotton jersey and all the classic ‘suit’ fabrics.
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As he ran up the stairs to his office a youngish man in a shantung shirt and dangerously tight jeans intercepted him.
THE ONLY GAME
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Although usually marketed as a ‘Panama hat,’ the shantung is a lower-priced imitation woven in China from twisted rice paper.
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I remember a red gingham dress embellished with red ric rac, a black and blue plaid with black velvet collar and cuffs, a lovely cream with tiny red rosettes and one of those big collars trimmed in cream - colored eyelet, a salmon shantung that I wore for graduation from high school, and my very favorite -- a cream with pink and periwinkle flowers.
1990's Sewing Patterns
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Chinese Village: Taitou, Shantung Province is one important ethnographical work about rural society in North China. It is a landmark work as Golden Wing in the early anthropological study in China.
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It is like a nubby silk shantung, this culture thing.
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I was in a wedding and the bridesmaid's dress was a rose pink silk shantung.
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Quick to sew in less than two hours, you can sew this shrug in a variety of fabrics: sheers - such as georgette and chiffon - shantungs, linen, crepe, even velvet.
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They makes gorgeous silk shantung and taffeta dresses that are amazingly flattering and come in every color.
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I like the slubbed silk idea, but I've read somewhere that if you use dupion or shantung with the "lines" sorry, can't remember the proper word running vertically, the seams tend to unravel.
A Perfect Storm - A Dress A Day
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And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.
Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
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Sheree looked great in the black and gold silk shantung pantsuit she wore today.
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The bodice was in shantung satin and the skirt was in tulle & crinoline with lining.
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When I visited my favorite hat shop, I looked at a shantung and a cheap Panama hat but decided that my head would look and feel better when crowned by a true Montecristi.
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The bodice was in shantung satin and the skirt was in tulle & crinoline with lining.
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Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silkworms that eat oak and juniper leaves.
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A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
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At Mr. Lauren's show, there were silk shantung smoking jackets, shirts with mandarin collars and a healthy dose of dragon embroidery and the color jade.
A Burst of Lush, Opulent Glamour
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I was in a wedding and the bridesmaid's dress was a rose pink silk shantung.
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By the end of April, Chiang and his soldiers had reached Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, where they ran into trouble.
The Last Empress
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In 1928 Japan despatched an armed force to Tsinan, in Shantung Province, to block the northward advance of the victorious Nationalist Army along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
The Fight for Democracy in China
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Tussah silk is similar to shantung, with silk from the wild.
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Fabrics include canvas in different weights, linens, cotton and silk poplins, piquets, silk canvas, shantung, cotton jersey and all the classic ‘suit’ fabrics.
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The honor attendants wore street - length dresses of lavender shantung.
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Black Chambray and Vintage Leaf Two Tone: a classic black chambray front's offset by a back made from a loose-leaf pattern "clearly inspired by Japanese paintings" on '50s-era rayon shantung, not to be confused with rayon Wang Chung, as that only comes in Dance Hall grays.
Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials
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Wild silk fabrics—such as pongee or shantung—are both durable and less expensive than pure dye silks.
HOME COMFORTS
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She went back to the 1950s, with large geometric prints based on curtain and furnishing fabrics, heavy slubbed silk and shantung.
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It is like a nubby silk shantung, this culture thing.
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I recently bought a black silk shantung corset top, and I have no idea what to wear with it on bottom?
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For forays into the city, there were three-piece suits and for the evening a tuxedo in silk shantung, cream with black lapels and tie.
Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)
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Another unique characteristic is the emergence of shiny materials, such as satin, silk, shantung and duchesse.
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Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren gave his embroidered looks an exotic, Far East twist, as in this look with its red silk shantung embroidered smoking jacket.
Designers Adore Adornment for Fall
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But exotic, bizarre words like "chivari" and "shantung" and "Asscher" have never been in my vocabulary before now.
The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)
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At home in Chelsea his black shantung pyjamas would be laid out, the evening papers and the Book Collector spread on his night table, and the digestive biscuits and Karlsbad plums, a bottle of San Pellegrino, a jigger of Strathisla.