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I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.
But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.
All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains
No touching ... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers.
She is silk in a bed of mail-order satin. Complete and seamless, an egg of sexual muscle. My motions atop her are dislocated, frantic, my lone interstice a trans-cultural spice of encouragement I smell with my spine. As, inside it, I go, I cry out to a god whose absence I have never felt to keenly.
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
the bed, narrow apple-green draperies at
...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.
No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still
row of stitches.
Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.
You will treat my underwear with the reverence it deserves. Next time, you will stop and appreciate
hell, you'll marvel at the miracle of my ass clad in silk.
Her unintended striptease was all the more sensual because Belle was lowering her stocking with agonizing slowness not because she had an audience but because she seemed to love the feel of the silk sliding along her soft skin.
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
Soap shining beauty.
They're only Scotch pearls," he said, apologetically, "but they look bonny on you." His fingers lingered a moment on my neck. "Those were your mother's pearls!" said Dougal, glowering at the necklace. "Aye," said Jamie calmly, "and now they're my wife's. Shall we go?
Cammie, where did you get that necklace?
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande
Sexier than a silk teddy.
And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar.
After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress,
I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.
Mills & Boon and Harlequins are like colourful jelly beans, you can't get enough of...
No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!
sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey
Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion
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.
Charlotte, N.C., 273 Chastity belt, 55 Chaucer, Geoffrey,
There's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.
vice-chancellor's
The cunning livery of hell.
Teflon Panty Club
Silk handkerchief that erupted out of the breast pocket, an affectation he had adopted to distance himself from the Westminster hordes in their banal Christmas-stocking ties and Marks & Spencer suits.
made from a lovely piece of Liberty fabric ordered years ago, not because Saffy had a project in mind, but because it was simply too beautiful not to possess.
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
Did ye know that the silkies put aside their skins when they come ashore, and walk like men? And if ye find a silkie's skin and hide it, he - or she - " he added, fairly, "canna go into the sea again, but must stay with ye on the land.
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
Where's the lace?Lace-- Nalini Singh
I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people.
Its not Wingardium Levio-sa its wingrardium levi-o-sa
This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, - China Sorrows
Marcus's, or Evelyn's? Usually
I have always loved cashmere and knitwear is the first thing I'm drawn to when shopping - even if I don't need any.
Pride of place in my wardrobe is an Edwardian-style Norfolk Jacket in Derby Tweed. It is silk-lined with leather-clad buttons and has a smell that reminds me of wet moss and fallen leaves.
I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.
Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")
Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.
Silk scarves are my thing. I tie them to my handbag or thread them through belt loops or wear them in my hair. Never round my neck, though.
linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk.
The woman at the next table is making eyes at you," Lanie said, whispering conspiratorially.
"Really? What does she make them out of? Cloth?
Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.
Slattern's robe. Her feet were red at the knuckles
I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.
If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.
I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Coat to a seamstress in Vegas who specialized in fabric manipulation for magicians. I thought for certain her topit would
I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes.
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
Call me old-fashioned, but whenever I see those wire-fortified ribbons, I have the secret stab of nostalgia for old-timey ribbon, the kind whose ends flop like spaniel ears. I'm suspicious of unnaturally perky ribbon.
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
She'd spun a web around Maggie's son without his knowing it, without even perhaps her intention. Spider silk was stronger than chain if you happened to be a fly. There
Tie my heart in Egyptian threads.
Dylan Quinn's knickers,
I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
Where, I wonder, can such stylishly fitted jeans be found?
Little Caesar's Pizza,
Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.
It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand.
A snap of Rhys's fingers, and my nightclothes - and some flimsy underthings - appeared on the bed. "I couldn't decide which scrap of lace I wanted you to wear, so I brought you a few to choose from."
"Pig," I barked
I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.
The Friday Night Knitting Club
I like the architecture of lingerie.
I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!
...heavy satin that fell like spilled syrup...
I'm into cotton underwear. I dont need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.
And Henry's as well, for
Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...
Damn deez doilies!
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
And who the hell came up with jeans? Tamani continued darkly. Heavy, sweltering fabric? You're seriously telling me the race that invented the internet couldn't create a fabric better than denim? Please!
When it comes to white jeans, fabric is key.
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
Since youre here, Courtauld said wearily, youd better explain why these lollipops or whatever they're called have to be on silk. If I'd had a lollipop I knew precisely where Id stick it.
Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.
There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.