nun's cloth
nun's veiling

"My favorite suit," he says, "was from nun's cloth.

Nun's veiling, it's called, and we made black suits out of that.

She bought some soft white nun's veiling, from which she fashioned a flowing robe.

"It's nun's veiling," he said of the sheer, black, collarless suit he was wearing that summer day, "designed by my friend Massimo Vignelli.

Oh yes and then we Oh whenever we had anything like picnics or anything like that, we had lovely white dresses that were made of what they called nun's veiling.