Sentence examples for silk sweater from inspiring English sources

A hand-painted silk sweater sold for $152 at Bergdorf's in 1976.

WITHIN 24 hours of Oscar de la Renta's resort fashion show on Monday evening, more than 500 people had endorsed his look No. 42, a green and white sequined silk sweater that was based on a classic baseball T-shirt.

Ranging from $65 for a T-shirt to $300 for a cashmere and silk sweater, Custo Barcelona offers an economical way to embrace the swirling prints currently in fashion, compared with the four-figure designer versions from Fendi, Pucci and Versace.

Shortly after I inspected a violet silk sweater -- officially making purple okay-for-gays again -- a clerk asked if she could assist me.

The collection was less nostalgic, more modern and airy, whether tailored into soft suits in a pallid palette of putty, mauve, gray, green and blue, or as sportswear with crinkled silk sweaters.

The pile on the floor grew like a reproach, a bulbous monument of mediocrity (those awful suits) and old clothes: big nappy black wool sweaters; mingy, stretchy black silk sweaters; six sixx!) pairs of black jersey pants.

The green movement has something of an image problem in that the sheen of luxury clings to so much of it, with Whole Foods, hybrid cars and organic silk sweaters pricing themselves out of the lives of most consumers.

If anxious American consumers stop snapping up those Gap silk sweaters that are made in Malaysia or Thailand, that regional economy will suffer.

Cashmere-and-silk sweater from Chanel's Paris-Monte Carlo Collection, $3,865.

Cashmere-and-silk sweater ($990) by Ermenegildo Zegna; www.zegna.com.

The fall 2013 show was sometimes deconstructed, sometimes unconstructed, and altogether a Ferris wheel of tie-dyed silk, bedazzled sweaters, recklessly elaborate slip dresses and billionaire biker jackets with barbed-wire jewelry.