Word: bouffants
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Organdie has been proved practical as well as attractive for beachwear. Manufacturer's claim that this material is guaranteed "to come out of the water as bouffant as it went...
Wearing a bouffant off-shoulder gown of pink net, pink gloves trimmed with silver, and a silver-and-rhinestone butterfly, Betty Tyson received more than 600 guests, including Navy Secretary and Mrs. James Forrestal, Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Farley and daughter...
...name rarely appears on Metropolitan Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
...Schubert: Bouffant brown taffeta, tight sequin bodice, white-plumed...