Sentence examples for skirt using from inspiring English sources

Other looks were long and slim — and might be just a sweater and skirt, using a couple of the sweet but strong colors.

In 1909, the philologist J. Redding Ware provided a Victorian-era etymon: "Petticoat or skirt used by actors when playing female parts.

On one garment, it was used almost like a hoop skirt used to be to lift up a full skirt on a dress.

For a fluffier, fuller skirt, use wide strips.

To create a looser more flowy skirt, use a light and airy fabric.

To create a more structured skirt, use a stiffer fabric material.

If you want a full length cage skirt, use your waist to ankle measurement; if you want a knee length cage skirt, use your waist to knee measurement; etc.

In the pursuit of a new proportion, Ms. Karan paired skintight black bodysuits (one of her original easy pieces, by the way) with loose coats and fuller skirts, using draping to create a sort of deflated pod.

This season he added more sporty elements to his collection: a tailored slate wool jacket over slouchy shorts, indigo print shirts and full skirts using the Japanese shibori technique (a more meticulous form of tie-dye) and some worn with pullovers in kelly green, which is Mr. Panichgul's nod to hippie-preppy.

Am I correct in thinking micro skirts used to be forbidden?

For the rest, they offer devices (their skirts used like bull-fighting capes; their skirts removed and laid in a line; a man whirling a ribbon through the air) as the impetus for the movement, as section after section arrives with predictable evenness, each feeling slower and slightly more fraught than the last.