Sentence examples for tunic in from inspiring English sources

It was a tight-fitting linen tunic in a delicate shade of oatmeal.

Givenchy's tunic in black silk jersey (about $1,750, at Bergdorf Goodman) would look great with slim pants and sandals.

Melville's narrator, Ishmael, claims that the mincer of blubber usually wore such a tunic, in a clerical cut that made him look like "a candidate for an archbishoprick".

They did work with papery white cotton and delicately pleated georgette for airy coats, side-draped trousers and a cool halter tunic in two shades of white.

Along the way (my Spanish is improving rapidly), I learn something about the huipil, the indigenous woman's tunic in use for the last 2,000 years.

He yelled at the son, who was wearing a loose tunic; in the tussle of the arrest the young man had lost one of his sandals.

Not to mention, perhaps, American Indians with the fringed suede tunics in ginger and matching moccasins.

Other coats and tunics in neutral tones had panels of bright orange and green.

Some of the best pieces in this bright-eyed collection were everyday tunics in crepe with flap panels that could be left alone or tied around the body.

A trio of sleeveless tops or tunics in sorbet colors were cut away in the back and shown with gathered cotton skirts.

Mr. Anderson, at his Paris showroom, acknowledged that, why yes, the intricate pleating on leather tunics in his collection did look like corrugated cardboard.