"One minute there are 400 little girls, then a lot of older women in beaded jackets," she said.

Bob Mackie has several examples, among them a fox-trimmed beaded jacket over a gold-beaded dress.

"They probably sold the clothes for $5 each," said Ms. Brenner, adding that one of the beaded jackets had cost $2,000 to make.

Some beaded jackets for men had death's-heads embroidered in front.

Sympathetically he wiggled his butt as she stormed over to the closet for shoes and a beaded jacket.

She wore the beaded jacket she'd fallen in love with on her first day at the hotel.

She gives the groom a hug, presses herself to the beaded jacket, and gives him a kiss on the cheek.

He once made her a beaded jacket so beautiful she told him she wanted to be buried in it.

Her beaded jacket shimmered in the quiet light.

Her beaded jacket hung over the back of the sofa.