With this frisky frock over her arm, Ms. Callaghan led me to a large, pale-wood office cabinet that, when she slid open the door, turned out to be a generously proportioned dressing chamber.
From there, as if plucking the season's finest hydrangeas, Simba retrieved a pair of Jerome C. Rousseau green velvet pumps with vertiginous silver heels, the better to show off the various oddments — army-fatigue shorts with braided trim; stud-collared white oxford-cloth shirt — he had helped me array in a silver-curtained dressing chamber.
Here's @RepMcSally on the House floor wearing a sleeveless dress, which chamber security says violates dress code (rule doesn't exist).
One has to do with the Brennan chambers' dress code.
The southern room contains the dressing and privy chamber, above which hangs another Nine-tiered Umbrella.
Allen, who later claimed that he said it to Captain Delaplace, said, "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" Delaplace finally emerged from his chambers, fully dressed, and surrendered his sword.
Above it is the small Oriel Bedroom, probably originally a dressing room for the Great Chamber as its only entrance is via that room.
All new MPs have been given briefings by parliamentary staff about the language used in the Commons chamber, dress code and how to ask questions to ministers, and they have been given a tour of the Westminster estate.
Think Cleopatra's chamber - Madame Du Barry's bed chamber, Mata Hari's dressing table.
The Parliament reversed itself and allowed lawmakers to enter the chambers wearing African dress, but debate continued on whether to abandon a colonial-era dress code requiring a suit and tie.
