Sentence examples for whose dressing from inspiring English sources

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"I know people who have all kinds of symbolic interpretations of the tie," said Marion Maneker, whose "Dressing in the Dark: Lessons in Men's Style from the Movies" (Assouline, 2002) dissects a variety of myths.

In one corner, in sunglasses and a flak jacket, the seventy-two-year-old English rocker Ian Hunter, whose dressing room this was, sat stonily watching.

Mrs Mop, as the paper has christened her, boasts 15 albums of photos featuring her with all the various stars – ranging from Rolf Harris to Albert Finney – whose dressing rooms she has mucked out over the last two decades.

Spare me the pity for the $120 million man, though, and consider the sad irony regarding the dearly departed Martinez, who dispensed nuggets of reasoned analysis for six glorious years in the Yankees clubhouse and whose dressing stall is now represented by the tortured wit and wisdom of David Wells.

"The cliché is that nature hates a vacuum, but Harvey seems to hate it more," said Mr. Fierstein, whose dressing rooms for his roles in "Hairspray" and "Fiddler on the Roof" were legendary for their accouterments, and who sews his own curtains.

He was simply enjoying a tiny word game, but whenever I met him after that, usually as an extra in one of his films, I always said to him "Hello, Dick" and the assistant director would have apoplexy…' And this is how he becomes intimate with Olivier, whose dressing room he talks his way into (aged 19) while the actor is making Sleuth: Everyone called him Larry.

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Inevitably, the day after an awards shows, one or two actresses emerge as the fashion victims of the evening, the stars whose dresses land them on every "Worst Dressed" list and inspire a barrage of snarky comments.

I think we all know where we are with it – it's a bit like that other euphemism "strong-willed diva", traditionally applied to the more monstrous female elements of the music industry, whose dressing-room riders stipulate things such as dalmatian-fur bogroll and 36 giant white candles borne by 36 black dwarves.

"They always ask you whose dress you're wearing.

At the reception desk, women whose dress is deemed immodest can borrow a chador.

And we have the unknown designer whose dress you wore to the black-tie event".

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