Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...
...evening his brothers, the Duke of York and Prince Henry, arrived in evening dress to find him receiving the local farmers and their families in a grey lounge suit while his personal cronies stood about somewhat awkwardly in formal morning clothes...
...finding and nursing Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper in a Red Cross station in France: "But I love the man, and I shall have none other. I'll never wear the cap of St. Catherine, because old maids are only found in museum cases." Lady Diana made her own wedding dress "But I want to make my own dresses" and wore a veil worn by six generations of Rutland brides...
Wednesday. Marvelous morning. Patou called me up and asked if I should like to try on my dresses. Would I like to try them on! An old-rose coat trimmed with fur, a satin cyclamen evening frock, a white silk tennis dress wonderfully cut, one walking dress of rose, another in pale grey. This is simply too divine, I thought; it just isn't true. But when I jumped out of the car at Patou's, there were all the reporters sitting around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu...
...citizens of the U. S. and Argentina, who are the mainstay of the Concert, wondered idly at the number of "natives" present. The first act passed without an explanation. During the entre-acte a line of men and women in evening dress formed docilely in the lobby, purchased tickets to the single washroom for 75 centimes each (3c),* filed in and out with equanimity...