How To Use Taffeta In A Sentence
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Salteris, dark robe billowing about his thin limbs, led them unerringly to it, across an unused state chamber with its ancient linenfold and gilded coffer and up the stairs to the attic; Joanna followed in a susurrus of silk taffeta.
The Silent Tower
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With a nod, Annie pirouetted around in a rustle of taffeta and left the room.
Etched in Bone
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The shapes are a lot more feminine, the fabrics - taffeta, silk and lace - are a lot more feminine, and there are more textures involved.
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I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta.
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Dressed in severe black taffeta and white veil, Widow Gumple flounced by them.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Silk taffeta is lit up with metallic yarns; mesh is wired for a new look; and paillettes add reflections to fabrics.
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Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche guipure, a veil of English point, a necklace of fine pearls, a wreath of orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that whiteness she beamed forth.
Les Miserables
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[Banjarmassen] one of the towns of this island, is the chief trade for these articles; and at this place the following commodities are in principal request: Coromandel cloths of all kinds, China silks, damasks, taffetas, velvets of all colours but black, stammel broad-cloths, and Spanish dollars.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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We wore ballerina shoes and full black taffeta skirts, and short coats of such colours as robin's egg blue, cerise red, lime green.
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a kind of taffeta-lining to the Crown, his servility has assumed an air of the most determined independence, and he has
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Their dresses were pastel colours, with tulle, net, taffeta and nasty fake versions of all three, ruched and low cut.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Traditionally, windsocks are made from nylon ripstop, taffeta or oxford cloth, available in a variety of bright colors.
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It was mostly dark red taffeta, the gown; but the low cut, cleavage showing bodice was over laid in thin, black, netting like lace and the skirt was trimmed with a black gauze sash.
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Being maid of honour is a pretty cool job really, and my taffeta monstrosity got lots of polite compliments.
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That sums up the designer's newest line, it's monochromatic approach tempered by what are, for men, daring fabrics such as taffeta and silk poplin.
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I'd like to wear something trendy, so I don't feel like a taffeta meringue-wearing frump.
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Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny.
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Then, while Clara cowered in the flowered taffeta corner of a sofa, terrified of her son and horrified by his life, he told them.
DANSVILLE
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In that crushable taffeta ballet dress she has no right to look so cute.
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The interiors are all original chinoiseries and stained glass, oil paintings, Meissen porcelain, taffeta and silk.
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Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny.
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Will you hear the crisp crackle of silk taffeta or did you just use glazed cotton which will make no sound at all?
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I washed dishes for months to afford its creamy layers of alternating lace and taffeta, accented at the waist by a peach silk rose.
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It was full of horrible taffeta and knarly make-up.
Fresnobeehive.com
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There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
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The taffeta of Jezebelle's skirt brushed lightly against Angela's crossed legs, and the younger girl's mind was already half made.
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Inventories of her furnishings from the 1660s and 1670s mention fabric curtains for mirrors, such as one of blue taffeta in her Stockholm residence.
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At such times, if Adams was present, he might recognize "organdie," or "taffeta," or "chiffon," as words defining certain textiles, but the rest was too technical for him, and he was like a dismal boy at a sermon, just waiting for it to get itself finished.
Alice Adams
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There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
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Fragile materials -- such as taffeta -- should be kept strictly for the evening, do you not agree?
Sanditon
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taffeta with shifting colors
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Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides , I spoke with more than 50 brides about topics ranging from the humor of the term "STD cards" to the best therapy-speak techniques for dealing with family wedding drama "I statements," anyone?
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His first balloon was a small parallelopiped in very thin taffeta, containing less than seventy-eight cubic inches of air.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed.
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She wore a yellow taffeta ball gown with black pumps and matching bum bag for her liver treats!
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Before it stood a young woman wearing white taffeta.
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Deferring to modesty, she wore a sheer mauve marquisette bolero edged with the same pink taffeta as the top.
Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
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Courtesy of Miles Redd BETTER-OFF BEDS: Striped silk taffeta covers the box spring in decorator Miles Redd's bedroom, 'It won't get a lot of wear and tear, so you can get away with a delicate fabric,' he says.
Bye-Bye, Bed Skirts
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Stretch shiny silk satin, light stretch silk twill, jersey, nylon taffeta, and leather dominate the collection.
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She wore an ‘ensemble of green taffeta fashioned with a loose fitting bodice and bouffant skirt,’ and her husband were a matching court outfit.
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With her coiffed hair and off-the-shoulder velvet and taffeta cocktail dress she is the most striking woman on the dance floor.
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Her thin hair was plated in braids and her taffeta dresses looked shabby beside Geneva's pink organdie frock with her golden hair elegantly twisted atop her head in curls.
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One display used five layers, with a blind within the window, followed by several layers of taffeta (yes, taffeta's still in), topped with two heavier drapes.
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The inner face of the top band is olive/rust shot taffeta patterned with a floral design.
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He held up the blue taffeta semiformal Diana's mother had made for her to wear to the prom.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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His father develops depression and petit mal seizures, his mother takes up ballroom dancing; one vegetates on a locked ward while the other bespangles taffeta with sequins.
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Lanvin's Alber Elbaz took a lavish yet unstructured approach with his wilted washed-taffeta version, while Ralph Lauren went old Hollywood with a luminous silver trench in double-faced charmeuse silk.
The Trench Gets a Nightlife
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Dresses come in varying lengths, from tea length to floor length, and can incorporate many materials such as taffeta or satin.
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The boy's thoughts drift to the tired old tailor sewing the Mayor's Christmas coat while Simpkin the cat captures mice dressed in waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta and hides the last spool of cherry-coloured twist.
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Weir, was derived from a kind of taffeta or ribbed silk which used to be called tabby silk.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
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Traditionally, windsocks are made from nylon ripstop, taffeta or oxford cloth, available in a variety of bright colors.
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I leafed through the pages, gazing at the silk bustiers and taffeta gowns, the hip-hugging denim capris and leather halterneck dresses worn by rich, famous, and beautiful people.
Indie Girl
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She wore a gown of ivory taffeta adorned with gold brocade made by her own hand.
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Layers of stiff net petticoats went under taffeta strapless dresses that made waists look tiny.
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Dresses billowed from the bust, ruched at the hip and dipped dizzily above and below the knee — all in wonderful silks, satins and taffetas.
Chic Simple
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The stuffs then known were velvet, satin (called samite), and taffeta, -- all of which were stitched with gold or silver thread.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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One of the master's endless searches was for fabrics that had inner life and light—paper taffeta, silk faille, organza—as well as a firm enough "hand" to hold volumetric shapes made with fewer seams.
Fashion's Eternal Flame
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[Footnote 703: Clerk of the Town Hall of Albi, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 300.] [Footnote 704: Thomassin, in _Trial_, vol. iv, p. 304.] [Footnote 705: _Sandal_ or _cendal_, a silk bearing some resemblance to taffetas.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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He was disconcerted to hear that she wanted a pink living room, but he followed her lead, draping the room's three sets of French doors and two windows in striped pink taffeta.
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She's we good at dressmaking, taffeta; and she said even if the stuff was ruined where the cocktail stained it, she could take out a seam - halfa breadth say - because it was one of those full skirts. '
A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side
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There are lots of satin and technical fabrics which include silk jersey, duchess satin, silk satin, parachute silk, viscose organza, silk twill, cotton canvas and taffeta.
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Her thin hair was plated in braids and her taffeta dresses looked shabby beside Geneva's pink organdie frock with her golden hair elegantly twisted atop her head in curls.
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The Ungaro dress looks like taffeta and has a peach-colored shimmer; the dummy is painted in an exact shade of dirty beige.
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The strapless top of her wedding dress was pink taffeta over a high-waisted mauve marquisette cocktail-length skirt.
Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
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This is made obvious with her props and costumes - vintage 1940s shoes, some with ten-inch spiked heels, black Lycra shorts, long-waisted organdy dresses sashed with a neat taffeta bow.
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The jacket has a lightweight taffeta nylon lining and is also completely breathable.
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Weir, was derived from a kind of taffeta or ribbed silk which used to be called tabby silk.
Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets, when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta, there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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She knew that the other girls would be well dressed, but she could not afford anything new, so she used some turquoise taffeta from a donated dress and combined it with a black velvet top and remembered being very pleased with the result. 50
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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A sleeper chair (above left) is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets, when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta, there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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The shapes are a lot more feminine, the fabrics - taffeta, silk and lace - are a lot more feminine, and there are more textures involved.
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In the back room Irena sat with her back to the light tacking a sleeve into the armhole of a taffeta dress.
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When graduation day arrived at last in June, I brushed my hands down the pink taffeta dress that Grandma had bought for ten dollars at our local thrift shop.
Brooklyn Story
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She wears a brilliant flame-coloured taffeta cloak.
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Pink swirled over the white sheath dress, which billowed into a taffeta 1950's ingenue's gown.
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I can remember wearing a taffeta skirt with sleeveless top and a waspie elastic waist belt, plus a net underskirt, which used to prick your legs with its rough edge.
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Fabrics that hold their shape, such as taffeta and heavy silk, have also made a comeback.
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Her off-the-shoulder gown, which she disliked intensely, was made of fifty yards of ivory silk taffeta.
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Poult de siue is sometimes called faille taffeta.
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I have not wooed in earnest," he said carelessly, and hitched forward his cloak of sky-blue tuftaffeta with an air.
To Have and to Hold
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The white taffeta bow which held the front curls back from her face hung draggled and limp; dust smeared her dress.
THE THORN BIRDS
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As with the twisted form in ‘Bedlam in a Bottle’, the printed figures appear like cut-outs, the clothes stiff and angular like funeral weeds in black taffeta.
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She wore a gown of ivory taffeta adorned with gold brocade made by her own hand.
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Women may have been dressed in long velvet dresses over taffeta underskirts and boned bodices.
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One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shreds and patches with a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taffeta.
To Have and to Hold
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The black taffeta silk ballgown was strapless and backless with a plunging, gravity-defying decolletage.
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He summoned his brother: ‘Get in a stock of taffeta and rope and you'll see one of the most astonishing sights in the whole world!’
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The firm is highlighting textured woven dobbies and jacquards for bedding, as well as sheers, semi-sheers and silk-look taffetas for window coverings.
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The firm is highlighting textured woven dobbies and jacquards for bedding, as well as sheers, semi-sheers and silk-look taffetas for window coverings.
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There are also chiffon, tulle, lace, crepe, taffeta and leather.
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On the pretext of having sat on some ice cream, she excused herself and returned wearing a robe of looped taffeta.
Cherie Burns: What Makes a Fashion Icon?
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Lightweight fabrics such as synthetic sheers, batiste, taffeta, velvet, stretch fabric, tricot and plastic film would need a ‘size 11 ‘needle.’
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Instead of Stone Age camps aswirl in magic and taboo and scented smoke from mesquite lodge fires, she found herself sitting on taffeta chairs in drawing rooms on the outer margins of the Industrial Revolution, being interrogated by polite uncomprehending white men who believed in a single God and in a supremely rational universe where everything could be explained.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Next to their smock they put on a fair corset of pure silk camblet; above that went the petticoat of white, red tawny, or gray taffeta.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
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On one occasion they unearthed a blue taffeta ball dress with small bouquets of pink and cream brocade roses.
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One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shreds and patches with a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taffeta.
To Have and to Hold
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She wore a yellow taffeta ball gown with black pumps and matching bum bag for her liver treats!
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changeable taffeta
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This is made obvious with her props and costumes - vintage 1940s shoes, some with ten-inch spiked heels, black Lycra shorts, long-waisted organdy dresses sashed with a neat taffeta bow.
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His peach silk taffeta showerproofed coat or no-nonsense cap - sleeved day dresses in chartreuse shot tweed are about providing elegance not headlines.
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Her off-the-shoulder gown, which she disliked intensely, was made of fifty yards of ivory silk taffeta.
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In combining these weaves it is advantageous to have them contrast distinctly, for instance, a short weave such as taffeta or Gros de Tours, with a longer and looser one such as satin, sergé or cannele, also changes from warp to filling effects.
Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics
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Jason withdrew his hands from his pockets, to tip his hat to a pair of parasoled ladies making their way along the board sidewalk amid a soft rustling of taffeta and lace.
Ishmael
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Some of the fabrics highlighted were silk/cotton double-face duchesse satin, silk/linen jacquards and a new subtle threecolor iridescent taffeta.
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Nora couldn't help herself; she began to tear at the delicate fabric of the dress, bits and pieces of red taffeta and silk flying every which way.
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There are also silk taffeta, stretch satin and stretch voile, silk chiffon dresses and printed silk kimonos.
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Teaming a humble fabric such as felt or towelling with a more lavish material such as silk or taffeta is a technique she frequently uses.
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Dresses billowed from the bust, ruched at the hip and dipped dizzily above and below the knee — all in wonderful silks, satins and taffetas.
Chic Simple
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Stretch shiny silk satin, light stretch silk twill, jersey, nylon taffeta, and leather dominate the collection.
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Women may have been dressed in long velvet dresses over taffeta underskirts and boned bodices.
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There are few people who do not like the sheen of a soft silk, the sparkle of light on a "taffeta," and the richness of the silk that "can stand alone.
Makers of Many Things
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Meanwhile, Caroline Bates nearly set the catwalk on fire with her 50s-inspired creations featuring huge flower prints on A-line skirts worn over taffeta petticoats.
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Jane had practically buried herself in ruffles and frills and lace, and layers and layers of shiny taffetas, silk-embroidered net, heavy velveteen.
Uprising
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Yarmouth, conspicuous with vermilion cheeks, and a robe of flame-coloured taffeta.
The Virginians
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My own dress was the daftest display of taffeta you'll ever see, something to do with the fact that they'd taken a puffy dress for a thinner girl and blown it up.
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Gowns in black, burnished orange, cognac and pale pink easily communicate the rock princess vibe, especially when combined with silk taffeta, velvets and plush taffetas.
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During the process of researching my book, Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides I spoke with more than 50 brides about topics ranging from the humor of the term "STD cards" ...
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I need a cummerbund for my taffeta tuxedo shirt.
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They makes gorgeous silk shantung and taffeta dresses that are amazingly flattering and come in every color.
