"Qipao is best made with a stiffer fabric," he said, showing me my choices.

The stiff fabric stuck out around me like a silk fat suit.

There was a hand on her arm, its weight barely registering through the numbing, stiff fabric of the suit.

Smith's dresses contained stiff fabrics "to emphasise a woman who was very set in her ways".

He walked to the wall and felt the stiff fabric.

But his odd shapes and stiff fabrics disguised the body.

She jumped into the backseat and gripped the stiff fabric.

With bare nails he managed to pry it out of the stiff fabric.

Without warning and from some undetermined cause, the stiff fabric went up in flames.