The shirts, long enough to wear as tunics, are an elegant twist on the classic white shirt.

Her hair was pulled back in an elegant twist at the back of her head.

The result is "a mystery studded with elegant twists and turns," Karen Karbo wrote in the Book Review last year.

An apt illustration is Ivana Trump, below, who at a recent gala wore her glossy blonde hair in an elegant twist.

Irene, dressed in a floor-length dress, her gray hair swirled into an elegant twist, held it wide.

Crawley took his seat, shook out the elegant twist of linen that was his napkin, and strung it across his lap.

Her skin was creamy, and her hair, barely brown, more like sand, was pulled up in an elegant twist at the back of her head.

After Gabriel's love for "the offspring of my heart" is sullied by misgivings, the book opens out into a mystery studded with elegant twists and turns.

He could easily imagine her in the full skirts and low-cut bodice of an antebellum ball gown and with her heavy, chestnut hair swept up in an elegant twist.