The undersleeves are fashioned of embroidered lace and pleated chiffon.

The bride also wore a long, embroidered lace veil from France.

There were a few of the floral chiffons her customers love, sometimes touched with beadwork, and beautiful white embroidered laces.

An example of their work is the traditional Paraguayan embroidered lace, Ñandutí.

That helps explain so many chemise dresses (no restriction at the waistline) in wool tweed or fanciful embroidered laces.

Her black hair was piled in tiny ringlets, held in place with a tiara from which fell a veil of embroidered white lace.

Tucks, pleats and inserts of embroidered laces on the most ephemeral fabrics looked too fragile for human hands to fashion.

More conventional evening fare are the short dresses paved with wood beads and sequins or made of embroidered lace.

"This is 17 years old," Diahann Carroll said of her embroidered black lace and tulle gown.

He used metallic brocades, embroidered laces and shiny satins and taffetas to achieve his rich effects.