I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.

It is not the same dress as the one on her manikin in the Smithsonian.

The dress in the painting is a bright red, with rhinestones forming a spray on the right side.

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

`` I reached into that funny little pocket that is high up on my dress.

The Jewish working girl almost invariably works in an office -- in contradistinction to gentile factory workers -- and, buttressed by a respectable income, she is likely to dress better and live more expansively than the college student.

Her favorite cocktail dress is a Norell, a black and white organdy and silk jersey.

The Alpanschluss (" coming down from the alps ") is celebrated by decorating the cows with garlands and enormous cowbells while the farmers dress in traditional costumes.

The abbess also traditionally adds a pectoral cross to the outside of her habit as a symbol of office, though she continues to wear a modified form of her religious habit or dress, as she is unordained-not a male religious-and so does not vest or use choir dress in the liturgy.

Aachen is also famous for its carnival ( Karneval, Fasching ), in which families dress in colorful costumes.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

The basic military dress it is still worn in pictures into the Baroque period and beyond in the West ( see Reni picture above ), and up to the present day in Eastern Orthodox icons.

However, the traditional choir dress of Anglican bishops is quite different from that of their Catholic counterparts ; it consists of a long rochet which is worn with a chimere.

A drag queen is usually a male-bodied person who performs as an exaggeratedly feminine character, in heightened costuming sometimes consisting of a showy dress, high-heeled shoes, obvious makeup, and wig.

The 61st Cavalry and the President's Body Guard parade in full dress uniform in New Delhi each year in what is probably the largest assembly of traditional cavalry still to be seen in the world.

The emphasis is on various moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men ; reports about food and drink, different styles in dress or lovers, local habits in giving gifts or entertainments, or in religious beliefs and death customs ; and comments on Greek painting.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

In Judaism, a common practice is to dress up on Purim.

Another theory is that the name was borrowed from a cult of devotees to Artemis in Asia Minor, whose demeanor and dress somewhat resembled those of the group in Judaea.

Embroidery is most often recommended for caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denim, stockings, and golf shirts.

If the man refuses, he then is obligated to give the woman money or buy her a dress.

When the pilgrim is around from Mecca, he / she must dress in Ihram clothing, which consists of two white sheets.

Gothic fashion is stereotyped as a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress.

An altar from Metz has a carving of a woman with similar dress to the Sarrebourg example, also holding a small house on a pole, thus presumed to be Nantosuelta.

Moberly and Jourdain described how they had become convinced, over the following weeks, that persons they saw and even spoke to on that occasion – given certain details of dress, accent, topography and architecture – must have been of a presumed recollection by Marie Antoinette, on August 10, 1792, of her last days at Trianon in 1789.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

The developmental process involves the individual's progressively experiencing a sense of dignity and achievement resulting from having completed tasks, having kept commitments, and having created something ( however small or simple -- even a doll dress of one's own design rather than in the design `` it ought to be '' ).

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

Ginghams and calico will be popular dress for the women.

Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.

But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.

This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

* Canons 68, 69: Jews and Muslims shall wear a special dress to enable them to be distinguished from Christians.

Officially, fines and / or short prison sentences can be passed against civilians seen in military dress in public.

Haredi Judaism is less accommodating to modernity and has less interest in non-Jewish disciplines, and it may be distinguished from Modern Orthodox Judaism in practice by its styles of dress and more stringent practices.

Infuriated with Jason for breaking his vow that he would be hers forever, Medea took her revenge by presenting to Creusa a cursed dress, as a wedding gift, that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on.

These rules specify that kilts are to be worn ( except that in the national dances, the female competitors will be wearing the Aboyne dress ).

Other characteristics found in this work are the unadorned dress, in which the eyes and hands have no competition from other details, the dramatic landscape background in which the world seems to be in a state of flux, the subdued colouring and the extremely smooth nature of the painterly technique, employing oils, but laid on much like tempera and blended on the surface so that the brushstrokes are indistinguishable.

Tripp also convinced Lewinsky to save the gifts that Clinton had given her during their affair, and not to dry clean what would later be known as " the blue dress.

In the Pacific coast the machete has a long history of use and can be seen as part of the everyday dress of the rural male inhabitants, especially in the provinces of Manabi, Los Rios and Guayas.

Externally, Orthodox Jews can often be identified by their manner of dress and family lifestyle.

The dress of religious workers in ancient times may be demonstrated in frescoes and artifacts from the cultures.

The basic dress of a player is a protective equestrian helmet ( usually of a distinctive color, to be distinguished at the considerable distance from which onlookers are watching the game ), riding boots to just below the knees, white trousers ( often ordinary denim jeans ), and a coloured shirt bearing the number of the player's position.