Sentence examples for costumes from inspiring English sources

Not only do they adopt local customs and costumes, but they also get accepted as friends and neighbours," he said.

A few years ago, when Guardian critics were asked to imagine their ideal stage collaboration, I voted for a new version of Nijinska's lifestyle ballet Le Train Bleu, to be re-designed by Prada (the original, 1924 costumes were Chanel) and re-choreographed by De Frutos.

It kicks off in at 2am on New Year's Day, seeing in the first light with a colourful (and very loud) parade, featuring dancers peacocking about in elaborate costumes, moving to the rhythm of goatskin drums, cowbells and whistles.

There, he produced classy cabarets with costumes by the likes of Erté and Yves Saint Laurent, and music by Michel Legrand, Serge Gainsbourg and others – and with Zizi, as ever, the star attraction.

No wonder Flora Robson was ordered by her handlers to hint in interviews at the difficulty of going to the bathroom in her tightly sewn costumes, when filming Fire Over England in 1937.

Despite having designed costumes for British films since 1947, Julie Harris, who has died aged 94, came into her own in the swinging 60s, reflecting the fashion revolution of the decade.

A spokesperson for News International says: "The Sun was aware that there were Halloween parties taking place on student campuses, with reports of some interesting choices of costumes, and was calling student newspapers to see if they had photos that they might want to share with the newspaper.

Specially commissioned films chart the creation of the costumes and there are displays of national costumes from Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Canada and England.

After the production's London premiere, Lytton Strachey wrote that Tchaikovsky's score had made him feel "sick", and his fellow writer and critic Raymond Mortimer had poured equal contempt on the ballet's "fancy dress" parade of costumes.

He started as an actor but when that gave him up, as he puts it, he did a tailoring course at the London College of Fashion and went on to make costumes for ENO.

It's far too camp and stagey for cinema, really, as are the luridly coloured costumes and absurdly clean and tidy "medieval" sets.