crêpe de Chine

It's a beautiful crêpe de chine with a ruffled neckline designed by my son.

Pleated waistcoats from £168 and silk crêpe de chine shirts around £130.

Thin crêpe is called crêpe de Chine ("Chinese crêpe").

The major was accompanied by a pretty young woman of about twenty two with yellow bobbed hair, dressed daintily and simply in light blue crêpe de Chine.

Mother was sitting up in bed wearing the daintiest breakfast jacket of tea-rose crêpe de Chine edged with cobwebby beige lace.

The performers in the Paradise act are clothed in silk georgette, crêpe de Chine, and satin.

She detested "strappy high-heel shoes" and the "crêpe de chine dresses" that women wore even in the heat of the summer in the country.

Vionnet used materials such as crêpe de chine, gabardine, and satin to make her clothes; fabrics which were unusual in women's fashion of the 1920s and 30s.

Colonel Klebb of SMERSH was wearing a semi-transparent nightgown in orange crêpe de chine.

'I shall see you presently, looking, as always, quite ravishing in one of my creations - the oyster-pink crêpe de Chine with the russet chiffon cape, is it not?'

Noreen Conwell, a talented young designer, has produced two crêpe de Chine scarves with a floral pattern inspired by the herbaceous borders at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire.

Toning exactly with the colour of her crêpe de Chine dress was a long,pliqué-à-jour necklace of geometric metal links filled with various shades of pink enamel, interspersed with cornelians.

At that moment the door to the next room, which had been left a little ajar, opened and a slim, petite woman came in, elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes.

The hat he eventually submitted, his first original millinery creation, was a cardboard pillbox covered in blue crêpe de Chine and trimmed with a plastic iris, sprayed silver that his mother had received as a free gift from a petrol station in the 1960s.