Sentence examples similar to grazing skirts from inspiring English sources

André Leon Talley, the Vogue visionary, pictures a lesbian president who looks like Julie Andrews and dresses to meet heads of state in "ankle-length skirts, grazing the Manolo Blahnik kitten heels".

She rebelled against the petticoats and floor-grazing skirts of the mid-19th century in favor of knee-skimming designs layered over ballooning trousers gathered at the ankles.

By contrast, the tailoring at Jean Paul Gaultier looked stodgy as the designer reprised some of his standard silhouettes and hour-glass leather jackets, now with fluid, ankle-grazing skirts.

The actress Kim Cattrall, right, along with social sirens like Nadja Swarovzki and Julia Koch, descended the staircase of the new Hayden Planetarium with floor-grazing skirts in hand.

Ms. Keaton, 64, has after all spent the better part of a near 40-year film career playing an assortment of tentative, endearingly flighty characters, masking her allure beneath layers of cloth, her face and frame obscured by bowler hats, oversize jackets, calf-grazing skirts and gloves — to say nothing of the high-necked sweaters she has worn for years like talismans.

Replenishing inventories daily or weekly with items inspired by the runways, such fashion chains draw people on the prowl for peasant blouses, street-grazing skirts, tunics and tribal prints, and the kinds of flat sandals meant to complement a raft of maxi-dresses.

For the better part of her 30-odd-year film career, Ms. Keaton has hidden her light under bowler hats, oversize jackets and calf-grazing skirts -- and almost always prim gloves -- cultivating a persona that on screen and off is less siren than librarian.

If you know a woman who likes to go out dancing, chances are she's probably felt it: strange fingers creeping up her skirt and around her ass cheek, cupping her chest, or grazing her crotch over her clothes.

Nothing grazing.

(See: Hathaway, grazing).

Masekela: still grazing.