Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...west door and up a grassy hill, then round the corner down through the colonnaded, cobblestoned pilgrim's courtyard to the portal of the lower church. Two hundred young girls of Assisi (practically every available one) were named last week "attendants of the Princess," received white satin dresses donated by her. Soldiers, Fascist militia, torch bearers were told off to line...
...From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk of the man who came in and demanded a scarlet casket with scarlet lining...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...
...colors was the brilliance of the men's court dress. Officials and officers wore scarlet coats, heavily embroidered with gold, and black trousers with a gold stripe on each side. Others, of the Royal Guard, wore gold helmets with high crests of white plumes. Still others were in black satin knee breeches and embroidered black coats...
Clinging to her father's arm, Bride Edda arrived in the first motor car. Father as well as daughter seemed flushed with excitement. Amid cheers they entered the church, he in faultless morning clothes, she in a sleek white satin dress trailing to her ankles, shoulder length white kid gloves, and a superb lace bridal veil the gift of the Italian Senate, this surmounted by a narrow wreath of orange blossoms. Bride Edda's bouquet was an armful of roses white as snowballs...