A colorful crimson sash was wrapped around the neck of her dark gown.
And when Annette Bening appeared at the Academy Awards in 2000, gloriously enceinte in a dark gown, it sparked "a revolution," Ms. Fuller said.
"An old mirror betrayed the contrast between my chalk-white face and my dark gown, and I wondered how many other musicians had stared into that same glass," Chua-Rubenfeld writes of her time backstage at Carnegie Hall.
A bright color or white may be a good choice for on stage- black curtains can make a dark gown disappear, or nudes could wash out your skin tone.
Another series depicts a blue-skinned woman in a funereal black gown and dark glasses holding a blue baby doll; in one print, she hammers nails into it.
For example, the Three Ladies (Emily Pulley, Jossie Pérez, Wendy White) who serve the mysterious Queen of the Night wear dark flowing gowns and blackface, and have large, eerie, detachable silver masks atop their heads.
She has removed her dark robe and is now in a long white gown.
The costumes are dreary and nondescript: blackish leather for the Druid warriors, dark-caped gowns for the women.
She cradled her flag and torch in one hand, turned and walked back toward the ferry, her white sandals clacking on the pavement under her dark green gown.
She arrived outside Castle Clinton in Lower Manhattan yesterday -- the first day visitors were allowed inside the real Statue of Liberty since the terrorist attacks of 2001 -- wearing a flowing, fibrous dark green gown and crown, and carrying a torch, flag and book.
