Sentence examples for parlor clothes from inspiring English sources
All afternoon, leaning into the wind, they trudged down Castle Hill Avenue in the Bronx, dressed in funeral parlor clothes.
After the other mourners have left, Johnson returns to the funeral parlor, dons the corpse's clothes, and places a cell phone in the coffin.
He's a tiny man who wears sandals and old clothes, but when I saw him in the parlor, in mid-March, he looked as comfortable as any of the politicians.
He uses the money for food, clothes, cigarettes and periodic trips to off-track betting parlors.
The fifties elements can be seen in the formal attire worn by the principals (Moreau is in evening clothes and heels and a straight-from-the-beauty-parlor do) and in the symmetries of the story, which yield a facile, sub-Hitchcockian irony.
But the Indian families crowded into the Dior beauty parlor, the young woman adding stiletto sandals to her armful of hip Western clothes and the men focused on business suits at Giorgio Armani all prove that this luxury destination is in New Delhi.
Because of various co-op board restrictions on commercial activity in Manhattan, Carlisle sells its clothes through a showroom on East 52nd Street that looks like a baroque parlor.
"Like an ice cream parlor.
