A whisper-light cashmere nightie and matching robe make a comfy sleepwear twin set ($650 for the set at www.blissworld.com).
7. Dressing gown £580, The Merchant Fox, themerchantfox.co.uk With its flashy red-and-white stripes, this robe makes dressing down at home actually feel more like dressing up.
£25, Southbank Centre Shop 8. Derek Rose robe Made from pure silk, this luxurious striped dressing gown is a must for the gent in your life.
Each robe made by Moriguchi requires at least six to eight weeks of workmanship… Writer tells about first meeting Moriguchi in Paris in 1986 where they were both guests of a mutual friend.
The prisoner, so frail "there was hardly any hajji under the robe," makes declarations that sound like a jailhouse letter from Ulrike Meinhof: "I have 10 guns and you call me bandit.
A mid-19th-century Piikuni Blackfoot robe made from an elk skin features painted red, yellow and blue horses; teepees; and battling tribesmen evenly distributed on an off-white field.
Other types of garments on display include examples of the formal ch-ao fu dress and a rare early-Qing robe made out of silk and a gold-metallic tapestry called kossu.
This can mean reworking well-known historical objects or art forms, like "Dream of China" (2005), a traditional robe made of fishing line and chain by Wang Jin, a Chinese artist.
And the title track is greasy and tart, with Mr. Trucks slathering urgent guitar, while his wife plays the tease: I know you wish that you could see in my window Wishing you could pull up the blind And I'm wearing my robe made of flowers Just me and my made up mind JON CARAMANICA.
Ms. Myers has a yellow satin dragon robe made for an 18th-century Chinese emperor that is embroidered with thousands of seed pearls; some parade armor made of metal plates covered in gold-brocaded satin; and a rare 13th-century fragment of kesi, a luxurious slit-silk tapestry weave that was probably developed in Central Asia.
