| She pulled on a loose-fitting chemise and a violet silk skirt over her girdle and stockings and left her room silently, in search of adventure. |
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| Her chemise was much lower cut than her usual as she reached for a blood red dress with the dangerously scooped neckline. |
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| It also has a new chapter on the history of drawers and knickers and one covering the chemise and petticoats. |
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| Ignoring the irony of my thought, I stripped down to my chemise and sat in bed for hours, trying to think of what was to become of all this. |
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| She also loves wearing a chemise out in public, especially when we go out to dinner. |
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| Her throat was bare and a slight ruffle of white fabric edged the neckline where the edge of her chemise peeked out. |
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| Underneath the translucent material was a white chemise and tights of a gleaming pastel gold. |
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| Carey instantly awakes and sits up straight, pulling the sheets up to cover her chemise. |
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| The bosom of the chemise became a chemisette or vestee and was fastened by light stitching to the front or neck of the dress. |
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| The heavy petticoats, stockings and thin chemise and drawers were bad enough. |
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| It perforated the sheer fabric of her chemise, ran through her body and whipped up the flotsam in her heart. |
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| The bloomers and a chemise would have gone under layers and layers of corsetry and petticoats, which could weigh up to 7lb. |
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| My chemise has had a horrible bleach accident and half of the blue squares on it have disappeared under random-sized splotches of white. |
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| She forms a knot in Guigemar's chemise that only she can untie, and he places a ceinture around her waist that only he can unfasten. |
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| The Cypriot female costume was an outer garment, the chemise, and the distinctive long pantaloons caught around the ankle. |
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| A plain white chemise slithered over her form, draping to her ankles, with the multiple petticoats and the flexibly hooped farthingale over it. |
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| She wore a full-skirted blue silk dress with balloon sleeves over a spring green loose fitting chemise. |
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| Ivy wandered aimlessly in her chemise and petticoats, too distraught to return to her quarters and dress. |
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| The scapula was meant to protect the chemise, and had a built in hood or cowl. |
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| She then tucked her chemise deeper within her crimson bodice in an unsuccessful attempt to push her chest further up. |
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| It had a silhouette of Fred Poole, profile to the right, wearing buttoned coat, high stock and frilled chemise, hair worn en brosse. |
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| She put on her chemise and her under panties then clipped on her stockings. |
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| Eleanor hurried up the stairs to her room and quickly stripped herself of the heavy dress, chemise and corset. |
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| The lady's undergarment, a fine white chemise, is gathered in soft folds with a black bow. |
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| An undershirt or chemise, with or without sleeves, open at the front and worn under the frock coat, was worn buttoned to the waist. |
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| I slipped out of my dress and pulled the chemise over my head. |
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| There Angel stood, in her robe and chemise as her father approached. |
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| Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise. |
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| The dark grey underskirt was off-kilter, needing to be straightened to hang within the open panel of the black overskirt, the chemise tucked farther into the bodice. |
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| Shell keeps were sometimes further protected by an additional low protective wall, called a chemise, around their base. |
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| One hand is deep in the pocket of a chunky fisherman's chemise with a middy collar and rolled cuffs, and she has thrust a flower into the belt. |
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| Ladies' gowns had square necklines and were cut low enough to reveal the frilled chemise worn underneath. |
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| Kendra had on a silk chemise, a shawl and one of her best hats. |
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| Shift-sleeves? not a soul now wears even a chemise. |
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| Shell keeps were built on many mottes, circular stone shells running around the top of the motte, sometime protected by a further chemise, or low protective wall, around the base. |
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| The folds of the chemise in Domenico Fetti's painting of Melancholy clutching a skull, for example, are echoed in the stone ruffles of a Baroque funerary monument displayed next to it. |
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| The cut of the new evening dress was simple and loose: the garment was generally sleeveless and often had a dropped waist or no waist at all, creating an overall effect something like that of a chemise or undershirt. |
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| There is a lock of hair, the chemise Marie-Antoinette wore in the Temple prison, and the tiny prayer book in which she penned a final message to her children. |
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| If a noble book suggests the need of a noble binding, consider a chemise inserted into a tastefully decorated slip case, leaving the book in its original state. |
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| A chemise, or low protective wall, was subsequently added to the keep. |
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