Sentence examples for tunics from inspiring English sources

There were jarring juxtapositions at Celine and Peter Som, where trousers were worn under dresses or long tunics; there were sort of aprons over dresses at Proenza Schouler.

But with Ghesquière back on the scene, Wang had the walls and floor of the Paris Observatory clad with matt silver panels, which emphasised the modern mood of the sleek high white polonecks, the boxing-leather gloves, and the bold zippered crosses stamped on coats and tunics.

Clothing, including tunics, kilts, gloves, scarves and headdresses.

See Pucci for spring, where there were tassels hanging down at the side of tunics, or Burberry where model Malaika Firth wore a dress entirely made of fringing.

But Beckham always dresses to look sexy as well as stylish, and this was mirrored in the slim belts that added shape to tunics and the side splits in the midi-length kilt-style skirts.

Almost the most exciting thing they can do is to visit the only hotel in the city, sneak out a camera from under their long tunics (photography is also banned) and pose for a snap.The Taliban's grip on Kabul is all the tighter because they are ill at ease in the capital.

Most turned out in the elegant knee-length tunics and full-length dresses that Bhutanese must wear in public because they were told the king wished it.

But he had a weakness for the "halo of power", of whatever colour, and a soft spot for old autocrats still carrying, like Simón Bolívar in "The General in his Labyrinth", their bullet scars, their memories of past glories and their faded battle tunics, with buttons made from the gold of Atahualpa.Writing was difficult; the words came as painfully as kidney stones.

To maintain an image of what is now called "austerity Britain" after a plague outbreak in 1665 and the Great Fire of London a year later, Charles II ordered his courtiers to dress in simple tunics, shirts and breeches.

The fashion press again panned him when he showed long tunics over trousers, but women quickly took to the comfortably elegant look.

SHADED from the fierce sun atop a battle-dressed horse and protected by bodyguards in red and green tunics, the emir of Kano looks on serenely as wave upon wave of horsed warriors, spears and swords aloft, charge down on him, only to peel off and acclaim him at the last moment.