Eve-of-the-French-Revolution hair fantasies are linked with extreme décolletage and ornate gowns.

Her clothing became an ornate gown.

Suddenly Colene was there, in her ornate gown, sparkling hair and bracelets.

He couldn't picture her dressed in an ornate gown like Lady Asher, trailing about the seemingly endless corridors of this palace.

She looked respectable, too, except for the ornate scarlet-and-yellow gown.

She looked like a wherry hen, strutting about in a heavy dressing gown far too ornate to suit her thin body and falling off her bottle-necked shoulders so that she had to jerk it frequently back into place.

And when the last victor returned, Erika stood and threw off her ornate gown.

She paraded into the San Francisco Hilton ballroom wearing a feathered boa flowing down over an ornate, floor-length gown.

But on screen in the new series, she is at her imperious best, in gorgeous, ornate gowns.

These images have none of the interest in pure form found in Edward Weston's shell photographs; instead, they present the shells as individuals, with their sweeping curves resembling ornate gowns.