At D&G, the prints, illuminated on the backdrop, were cut into anything you might wear for summer — if you were young and having fun — from brief shorts and bikinis, through handkerchief-point hemlines, to wrap skirts.
Against the smoke, they breathed through handkerchiefs dampened in a container of milk Mr. Phoenix had just bought.
Women with ruby red lips and coiffed hair peer off into the distance, their eyes looking to chase after rumbling aircrafts while their fingers loop through handkerchiefs out of frame.
Women with ruby red lips and coiffed hair peer off into the distance, their eyes looking to chase after rumbling aircrafts while their fingers loop through handkerchiefs out of frame.
You see the growing guilt on Gilbreath's face when she realises that, through the stolen handkerchief, she has hardened Othello's suspicions about his wife and it seems fitting at the end that the dead Emilia should take her place on the bed alongside Lily James's spirited Desdemona.
Electric acts, using the newly discovered phenomenon of static electricity to produce tricks such as lighting gas jets and setting fire to handkerchiefs through the performers fingertips.
Manning a trench in full replica kit, down to the last knife and fork, are five soldiers, shepherding visitors through the dugout, re-enacting the daily existence of the Wiltshire Tommies on the front line, and passing on trench survival tips: breathe through a urine-soaked handkerchief if your mask isn't handy during a gas attack, and keep your head down at all times.
Yet, week after week, Posh in her impossibly short shorts and handkerchief dresses wanders through the pages of Hello! and OK! accompanied by picture captions that mention how "gorgeous" and "perfect" her figure is.
Her little daughter had bitten her tongue and made it bleed; the girl had started to cry and the mother had wiped away her tears and blotted up the blood with the handkerchief, looked out through the open window of the carriage, thrown the handkerchief outside, and smiled at the switchman.
It is still terrifying to watch the footage, as the baby, his face covered in a white handkerchief, momentarily slips through Jackson's right hand before the star recovers his balance and hauls him to safety.
The illustrations tell us less about the fashions of the times than about a social world where women carry parasols, shop for clothes and fabrics, sit with other women in coffee houses or seductively drop a handkerchief while walking through the park.
