"Late 19th- and early 20th-century undergarments — bloomers, petticoats, nightdresses and slips — make up the core of our women's collection," he says.
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"Late-19th- and early-20th-century undergarments — bloomers, petticoats, nightdresses and slips — make up the core of our women's collection," he said.
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But they were middle-aged now, self-consciously aware, as they performed their jokey girlishness, of the heavy shelves of bosom under their nightdresses.
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On eBay and at junk stalls, I sourced pastel-shaded baby doll nightdresses from the '60s, satin bed-jackets, lace vests, and one particularly good pink bolero trimmed with ribbons and marabou.
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But since she founded Three Graces as a sleepwear label in 2015, her brand — named after the ancient Greek goddesses of charm, beauty and creativity — has evolved in unforeseen ways: After customers started wearing the line's crisp cotton nightdresses to the beach, Johnson expanded into resort wear in 2017.
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High notes were a billowing poppy-print gown that floated around the body like a breeze, and a white sleeveless sheath twisted into a knot at the waist — though schmatta-like nightdresses with see-through panels at the sides and big rhinestone buttons at the neck fell kind of flat.
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In her mind's eye she went through the objects she had packed with so much love and care in her trunk: the fluffy sky-blue and pink towels, the scented nightdresses that brought back such vivid memories of the home she had left, of her father, of Auntie Mimó (and Marcelle too, who had made the soft, playful dressing gown for her), and the bathrobe with the fantastical reed beds in which baby hippopotamuses frolicked and openmouthed crocodiles lay in wait.
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Outdoor shooting began at the end of November 1981 beside Lake Geneva at Nyon, followed by indoor shooting from January 1982 at Billancourt Studios in Paris. For both crew and cast, the director was extremely demanding. Sophie Loucachevsky, who played the production secretary, recalled: In the frost and the snow we waited outside in underclothes and nightdresses while Godard sat alone in a car and wept, clutching a teddy bear.de Baecque: p. 608.
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Wilson noted the film's red rooms occupied by women in white, and the "azure, Edenic images of the start are gradually engulfed in crimson". Producer Bruce A. Block described its colour variety as minimal, with an emphasis on "extremely saturated red". According to Richard Armstrong, the Eastmancolor film added a "a livid, slightly oneiric quality". Two rooms in the first scene (one where Maria is sleeping and the other being Agnes' room) are joined by the same colours, including "blood red" carpets and drapes and white pillows and nightdresses.
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Chantal Thomas, the queen of sexy stockings and lace, won a devoted following for her seductive underwear and for evening gowns that looked like nightdresses and vice versa. Guy Paulin was one of the first designers to promote a severe, plain, and uncluttered look. His garments were classical in their proportions and made for comfort and simplicity, with their harmonious lines reinforced by a subtle palette of colors and fine materials. Under his own name, Joseph designed luxurious knitwear along classic lines, creating loose, sexy garments in neutral colors.
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Madeleine the rag doll was made by Firmin's wife, Joan, with an extra long dress to hold their children's nightdresses, but Postgate asked Joan to make a new version as one of the characters. Gabriel the Toad was the only character in the series who could move freely without the use of stop-frame animation. Scenes featuring him playing the banjo and singing would have taken quite a bit of time if filmed with the stop-frame method, so Peter Firmin created a mechanism that helped him control Gabriel through a hole in his can. The character was based on a real toad that lived in the basement area of the flat that Peter and Joan rented in Twickenham beside the River Thames. Gabriel (named after Walter Gabriel in The Archers, a long-running British radio soap opera) was originally made for Firmin’s live ITV programme The Musical Box.
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I beg you to be good lord to her and > hers, and that she may have raiment, for she has neither gown nor kirtle nor > petticoat, nor linen for smocks, nor kerchiefs, sleeves, rails, > bodystychets, handkerchiefs, mufflers, nor "begens."'Henry VIII: August > 1536, 1–5', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: > July–December 1536 (1888), pp. 90–103. "Lady Bryan" Date accessed: 31 March > 2009. > (The more obscure items in this list are identified by the Oxford English > Dictionary (2nd edn) as: rails = nightdresses; bodystychets = corsets; > begens = nightcaps.) She also reports that: "My lady has great pain with her teeth, which come very slowly." (Elizabeth was to have serious difficulties with her teeth on and off for much of her life.) Margaret Bryan passed over responsibility for Elizabeth to Catherine Champernowne in October 1537 following the birth of Prince Edward, who became her new charge. A second letter to Cromwell, dated 11 March 1539, describes the Prince.
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