Food and clothes are costly, too.
As a minimalist, Mr. Rodriguez has to constantly deal with technique-mad editors who want more, more, more — without thinking that technique is largely to blame for turning clothes into costly wrecks, and turning smart shoppers off.
In every public appearance, Ms. Sanfo and Mr. Zongo have stood unsmiling, lips closed, wearing billowing clothes of costly basein, the burnished, subtly patterned cotton made in Burkina Faso.
Updating your accessory wardrobe often proves easier and less costly than updating your clothes.
Lululemon Athletica has been a standout performer on Wall Street since it went public in July, thanks to the popularity of its costly yoga and other workout clothes, which are made with unusual materials, including bamboo, silver, charcoal, coconut and soybeans.
Edward's surroundings and possessions were regally splendid: his rooms were hung with costly Flemish tapestries, and his clothes, books, and cutlery were encrusted with precious jewels and gold.
Though better in its early, unspoken strangeness than in its later clarity of purpose, this nevertheless haunting two-hander needs great performances and gets them: from the way the actresses treat their clothes (Anabel's costly threads, Chiara's oversized grubbies) and words like armor to the pain that invariably breaks through their carefully composed masks.
Having to buy clothes on vacation is costly and sometimes there isn't room to bring them back.
Most women don't pay attention to haute couture, and the reason isn't the money — made-to-measure clothes have always been extremely costly — and it isn't the lavishness or circuslike atmosphere of the shows.
Young designers are also reviving older labels — Cédric Charlier at Cacharel and Guillaume Henry at Carven — with clothes that are purposefully less costly and (how shall we say?) less studiously French.
