Suddenly she appeared, beaming, behind the wrought-iron fence, inside the graveyard, in a pleated ensemble from her favorite Japanese designer (Issey Miyake's Pleats Please) and soft green leather Arche shoes with dime-size perforations.
Mustafa was a mine of knowledge, and as I stood in the prayer room and admired the azure pleats of the carved ceiling, I wondered at the unique majesty of the architecture until my other half broke the silence by whispering, "I've just been a bit sick in my hand".
The winner (pictured right) features vivid-blue electroluminescent wire and patches, exposed bearings and natty collapsing pleats to improve an astronaut's mobility.Other new spacesuits are in development, including the one pictured above being modelled by its inventor, Dava Newman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She took care to give them collars that stayed flat and pleats that stayed pressed, and comforted the size-20s with billowing tops "to accentuate your form".
The surfaces of clothed bodies are enlivened by intricate schemes of folds and pleats and highlights in regular patterns of reiterated parallel and converging lines.
By 1720 25 the fullness was concentrated at the back in two deep box pleats sewn to the neckband, while the gown was waisted at the front.
The altarpiece's figures are given uniquely determined gestures, their limbs are distended for expressive effect, and their draperies (a trademark of Grünewald's that expand and contract in accordion pleats) mirror the passions of the soul.
In vase painting and in sculpture, this new tone is evident in the composition of scenes and in details such as drapery, where the fussy pleats of the Archaic chiton give place to the heavy, straight fall of an outer robe called the peplos.
Shortages of materials both during and immediately after the war led to the introduction of "utility" styles, especially in Britain, where government rulings insisted on the removal of all superfluous trimmings, including pockets and pleats, and restricted the fullness of garments in order to economize on the amount of fabric used.
Later, in a group of manuscripts of the second quarter of the century, the illustrations are colour-washed drawings with slender, lyrically conceived figures whose drapery falls in cascades of parallel rounded pleats, apparently inspired by contemporary southern Italian work (e.g., St. Jerome's Commentary on Isaiah, the Cîteaux Lectionary).
At first (in the 14th century) it was full and long like a dressing gown (the houppelande), but it gradually became more tailored and formal, with vertical pleats in back and front.
