Sentence examples for wig silk from inspiring English sources

The 76-year-old entertainer claims to have been forced to trade in his trademark blonde wig, silk stockings and sexy gowns for more conventional male garb after Turkey's broadcasting watchdog, the RTUK, put pressure on television stations to ban cross-dressing.RTUK denies such censorship.

Considering publicity his ally, he never failed to be photographed on courthouse steps with his famous clients, and he was known to assign aides to tie them up in courtroom conversations to prevent them from stepping outside on their own while he was still changing out of his wig and silk robes.

But by then he had become, Bolt writes, "an old man out of place in bourgeois New York — his head filled with memories of Mozart, powdered wigs, embroidered silks".

She puts on a black quiffed wig and a silk dressing-gown, tilts a microphone at 45 degrees and does a bit of Hound Dog.

Shown at the Impressionist exhibition of 1881, this work carried the possibilities of visual realism to new extremes by incorporating an actual, reduced-scale tutu, ballet slippers, a human-hair wig, and a silk ribbon.

There, you can buy chopsticks, silk pajamas, wigs, American fast food, guitars, kites and fermented tofu, among many other items.

The sensational nature of the case sometimes feels out of place in a court where, as a throwback to Hong Kong's British heritage, the judge and barristers wear powdered horsehair wigs and long black silk gowns.

In other cases, the processes used to work with difficult conflicts harkened back to white wigs, frocked coats, and silk stockings.

Sinden based his makeup on that of Danny La Rue, but went even further with the rouge, the ribbons, the giant poodle wig and the flutter of silk kerchiefs.

For the sake of art, he has donned Mozartean silks and powdered wig and a Davy Crockett coonskin cap.

Toward the center of the floor are the so-called wigging machines, which sew cotton, silk and polyester hair directly into vinyl craniums, the better to withstand whatever a child can dish out.