Hollywood femmes fatales and fallen women characters were portrayed often in black halter-style dresses in contrast to the more conservative dresses of housewives or more wholesome Hollywood stars.

Christian Lacroix has designed many dresses for Hollywood stars ; among them, he is responsible for designing Christina Aguilera's wedding dress and in the 1990s was famed as being a favourite designer of Edina Monsoon in the UK sitcom Absolutely Fabulous ( for which the house drew dubious credit ).

Cassini was renowned in Hollywood and high-society for making elegant ready-to-wear dresses, including those worn by Jacqueline Kennedy.

His seamstess sister Isabel made dresses for Republican President Herbert Hoover's wife and 1920's actresses in Hollywood.

Edith Head designed a number of gowns and dresses, supported by multiple layers of petticoats, for actresses such as Grace Kelly and Doris Day, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1950s.

They later renounced travesti roles and revealing dresses on their actresses, and made publicly known their disapproval of them.

When the London theatres re-opened in 1660, the first professional actresses appeared on the public stage, replacing the Shakespeare era's boys in dresses.

Meanwhile a guilt-ridden Posthumus arrives with the Roman army and dresses himself as a poor British soldier, hoping to die on the battlefield.

Even former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was described by the BBC in 1957 as " very pretty, and dresses most attractively.

British photographer Cecil Beaton described them as " alike as two magnolias, and with their marble complexions, raven tresses, and flowing dresses, with their slight lisps and foreign accents, they diffuse a Ouida atmosphere of hothouse elegance and lacy femininity.

British actress Emma Watson was also seen numerous times wearing dresses by Valentino.

He is not a savage but dresses and behaves like a European aristocrat.

The women in modern Akamba society also dress in the European fashion, taking their pick from dresses, skirts, trousers, jeans and shorts, made from the wide range of fabrics available in Kenya.

In many European societies between the Renaissance and the 19th century, wearing low-cut dresses which exposed breasts was more acceptable than today ; with a woman's bared legs, ankles, or shoulders being considered to be more risqué than exposed breasts.

Nikhil loves his wife very much as he likes to buy her European style dresses and other modern gifts.

In upper-class ( primarily American, but also northern European ) society, toile is often seen on dresses or aprons used at such events as country-themed garden parties or tea parties.

Decorative cording was used on silk dresses, to ornament swords, to hang personal items from belts for the aristocracy, in rituals, where it continues now in contemporary wedding ceremonies.

In fact, the cult of the “ deva-raja ” required the development of an eminently aristocratic art in which the people were supposed to see the tangible proof of the sovereign ’ s divinity, while the aristocracy took pleasure in seeing itself – if, it ’ s true, in idealized form – immortalized in the splendour of intricate adornments, elegant dresses and extravagant jewelry.

Her attire often consisted of " thrift shop " babydoll dresses, and her face adorned with smeared makeup ; MTV reporter Kurt Loder described her as looking like " a debauched rag doll ".

Women guests may wear cocktail dresses ; men may wear blazers.

She dresses her husband as a baby, and he hides in a cradle ; then she makes a batch of griddle-cakes, hiding griddle-irons in some.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Caine, Rachel: Feast of Fools ( Morganville Vampires, Book 4 ) ( 2008 ; vampire Myrnin dresses as Pierrot ); Dennison, George: " A Tale of Pierrot " ( 1987 ); DePaola, Tomie: Sing, Pierrot, Sing: A Picture Book in Mime ( 1983 ; children's book, illustrated by the author ); Hoban, Russell ( has lived in England since 1969 ): Crocodile and Pierrot: A See-the-Story Book ( 1975 ; children's book, illustrated by Sylvie Selig ).

" He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a rather strange group: Mr. Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his mannerisms suggest otherwise ; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens ; and a young man appears to be one of the family, although he dresses and talks like a servant.

From the 1990s, scrubs became popular in Britain, having first appeared in the USA ; however some nurses in Britain continue to wear dresses, although some NHS trusts have removed them in favour of scrubs as in many other countries.

The following were " suggested " as proper school attire in the latter order: Polo shirt or t-shirt with sleeves and pants for males ; dresses, skirt and blouse or blouse and pants for females.

Each side thus dresses up the disputes in terms of the other's alleged attempts to repress them ; Nationalists still see Orange Order marches as provocative attempts to " show who is boss ", whilst Unionists insist that they have a right to " walk the Queen's highway " and see any attempt to deny them the right to walk through traditional routes used for centuries as a move to marginalise them and restrict their freedom to celebrate their mainly Protestant identity earned in the Glorious Revolution settlement.

One of her red dresses was eaten by an elephant during filming ; a second was made by costume designer Anthony Powell.

Today, Western brides frequently wear white, cream, or ivory dresses for any number of marriages ; the color of the dress is not a comment on the bride's sexual history.

Each team dresses twenty players, of whom two are goaltenders ; the remaining eighteen are called runners, and may be either forwards or defensemen.

Confederate ladies visiting Beauregard's army contributed silk material from their dresses to create the first three flags, for Beauregard, Johnston, and Earl Van Dorn ; thus, the first flags contained more feminine pink than martial red.

Purposely ripped clothes were held together by safety pins or wrapped with tape ; black bin liners ( garbage bags ) became dresses, shirts and skirts.

In the 1890s, women's fashion became simpler and less extravagant ; both bustles and crinoline fell out of use and dresses were not as tight as before.

The dresses were extremely tight around the corseted torso and the waist and upper legs ; Punch ran many cartoons showing women who could neither sit not climb stairs in their tight dresses.

The sheep emerges from the machine shivering, but mostly unharmed ; Wallace names him " Shaun " ( a pun on the word " shorn ") and dresses him in the sweater.

The recording was made late on the evening of the high school prom at Central Commercial High School, the school Barbara, Mary, and Myrna attended ; they were still wearing their prom dresses, as they had come to the studio straight from the prom

" Pablo Picasso experimented with classicizing motifs in the years immediately following World War I, and the Art Deco style that came to the fore following the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, often drew on neoclassical motifs without expressing them overtly: severe, blocky commodes by E. J. Ruhlmann or Sue et Mare ; crisp, extremely low-relief friezes of damsels and gazelles in every medium ; fashionable dresses that were draped or cut on the bias to recreate Grecian lines ; the art dance of Isadora Duncan ; the Streamline Moderne styling of US post offices and county court buildings built as late as 1950 ; and the Roosevelt dime.

Barrymore playing the male character Carrots in a play of the same name, 1902Ethel Barrymore in 1901 in one of the famous dresses from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines

Niele: A busty and attractive elven mage, that dresses only with leather strips, she is famous for having saved the city of Malpetrim from a water dragon.

* In " And They Counted Happily Ever After ", Elvis Presley is mentioned, Hacker dresses like Elvis, and tells the citizens of Happily Ever After ( when he comes to collect their golden eggs ) that he wants to buy a pair of " blue swuede shoes ", in reference to Elvis ' famous song Blue Suede Shoes

They were made famous in the United States by Jacqueline Kennedy, who bought eight Marimekko dresses which she wore throughout the 1960 US Presidential campaign.

While staying with Tom Roberts in his famous Grosvenor chambers studio, he painted A holiday at Mentone ( 1888 ), which shows men and women at the beach relaxing while clothed from head to foot – the men in suits and hats ; the ladies in long, girdled dresses with boots and pretty hats.

The town is famous for its numerous shops for wedding dresses and many Bulgarians come here in order to prepare for their wedding ceremonies.

Highfield is also famous for its numerous churches of all denominations these include ; Roman Catholic churches ( St Marks, St Pauls, St Marys branches in Engineering, Old Highfield and others ), Anglican ( Old Highfield and others ), Reformed Church in Zimbabwe ( Canaan ), Dutch Reformed Church ( Canaan ), Methodist in Zimbabwe ( John Wesley in Lusaka and others ), United Methodist Church in Old Highfield and others ), Pentecostal Church ( Egypt and others ), Zaoga, FOG, Lutheran ( Old Highfield and others ), Salvation Army ( old Highfield and others ), Sengwayo ; long dresses ( Lusaka and Zororo ), Baptist ( Canaan and others ), Maranatha, Presbyterian ( Old Highfield ), Johanne Masowe, Mai Chaza, The African Apostolic Church led by E P Mwazha, Seventh Day Adventist ( Western triangle and others ), Jehovah's Witness, Mapositori / Apostles ( numerous sects est over 100 ), AFM and others.

The young boys and girls, men and women then put on their best traditional dresses and ornaments to take part in the famous Baiba dance.

Silvio Rodríguez, one of the most famous persons in the world nueva trova founders, " discovered " him and helped the " nomo " ( nickname coming from the way he dresses ) taking him on a tour to Spain.

In some cases, especially for highly public events, well known designers will lend custom or vintage dresses to famous attendees of the event, in order to showcase their design skills, and then take the evening gowns back at the end of the evening for part of a permanent archive.

Fortuny became famous for his pleated dresses, the " Delphos " and the related “ Peplos .” The exact method of pleating was a closely guarded secret involving heat, pressure and ceramic rods, which has never been replicated.

* El Aullido del Diablo / Howl of the Devil ( 1987 ) directed by Paul Naschy, co-starring Caroline Munro, Howard Vernon & Naschy's real-life son Sergio Molina in a major role ; Naschy plays an insane actor who dresses up as various famous monsters in this film, in one scene specifically playing the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky ( Sergio addresses the werewolf as " Waldemar " in the scene ), but it is only a very brief cameo appearance.

Soon, Lanvin was making dresses for their mothers, and some of the most famous names in Europe were included in the clientele of her new boutique on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris.

Afterwards, Mickey dresses in his famous sorcerer outfit from Fantasia and challenges Jafar to a magical duel using fireballs.

In 1497 Girolamo Savonarola and his followers carried out on this square the famous Bonfire of the Vanities, burning in a large pile books, gaming tables, fine dresses, and works of poets.