Sentence examples for rustling skirts from inspiring English sources

Pochna argues convincingly that Dior's Muse was his fastidiously elegant mother, the haunting beauty in rustling skirts who kissed him good night in the early years of the century.

Her snug jackets in silk faille with dressmaker buttons and three-quarter-length sleeves, which she pairs with embroidered wool trousers or big rustling skirts, suggest that she wishes more young women would dress like ladies.

And modern - though Waters makes full and sensuous use of gloves, stockings, rustling skirts and heaving breasts, her ear for the crunch of language, her knowingness and her unceasing impulse for physical honesty turn every potential cliché into something up-close and fresh.

Sometimes Blass writes sentences that soar, such as when "a flock of golden plover moved in from the sea, flying low with the sound of rustling skirts" or when the patronage of Leopold of the Belgians assured Ostend's "emergence as a resort that it is slowly unbecoming".

And he knows that it's not Mrs. Pearson, either, because women that age move noisily, rustling their skirts or clearing their throats.

The sound of Lily's skirts rustling as she gets closer.

As current Vogue cover girl Arizona Muse swept through the salon in elbow length gloves, organza skirts rustling, she seemed the very reincarnation of the vintage Dior fashion photographs which line the famous halls.

Mr. Armani said before his show on Monday that he was thinking of the eccentric woman who emerged at the turn of the last century, her body trim in a small-shoulder jacket (now in brown snakeskin lined with mink) and her skirts rustling at the hem with a spray of tulle.

In the evenings, when a cooling sea breeze moved inshore, they walked in the rose garden, around and around the sundial, talking of lumber and true love's knot, her silk skirt rustling, her great dark eyes cast low.

Even in the reading of "Three Sisters" one can smell the alcohol on Dr. Chebutykin's breath or feel the rustle of Olga's skirts.

There are several gorgeous examples of that signature silhouette, comprising a tight strapless bodice, with a full, bell-shaped skirt – a rustling, silky promise of an age of plenty.