Sentence examples for make a gown from inspiring English sources

Salvatore Ferragamo, the Italian fashion house that made cork soles fashionable in the 1950s and '60s, bought cork cloth from Subiris last year to make a gown for the window display in its Avenue Montaigne store in Paris.

He would take things around the house, like a shower curtain, and make a gown and a crown and all that sort of stuff.

The foreman, Sir Richard Smith (mayor of Abingdon in 1564/1565 ), had been a household servant of Princess Elizabeth and is described as a former "Queen's man" and a "lewd" person in Hales' 1563 chronicle, while Dudley gave a "Mr. Smith", also a "Queen's man", a present of some stuffs to make a gown from in 1566; six years after the inquest.

"Tom Ford made a gown for me for the Goddess Ball," Ms. Sacco said, referring to the gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this spring.

John Galliano, Dior's guiding genius until his recent anti-Semitic rants cast him into fashion purgatory, achieved a post-punk apotheosis in 2006 when he made a gown with an eighteen-foot train of black aluminum foil.

Making a gown like Belle's yellow ballgown requires that you have a sewing machine and the right colored material, but the end result can be very cool.

Taylor Swift makes a gown-up move on 'Red'.

"The person who was trying to sell me the fabric said, 'It would make a beautiful gown,' but I'd only wear a gown once or twice," she said later.

Louisa gamely did her job as diplomatic consort, rarely putting a foot wrong, even though Adams's salary and allowance were so inadequate that she once, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara, had to make a ball gown from a set of drapes.

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.

As for fabrics, she added, she often finds herself selecting one for a home-related project and thinking, "This would make an amazing gown".