Example sentences for: taffeta

How can you use “taffeta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That's plenty, of course--Culturebox would never discourage you from going anywhere to see Michael Stipe's gray-blue sheer organza suit, a beautiful embodiment of androgynous glamour, or the wholly deconstructed Edwardian getup Jean-Paul Gaultier designed for Madonna, with its exuberant bursts of taffeta, twill, and satin, as well as an over-the-top silk top hat.

  • Anointing Miss Manners a deep-thinking critic of 1960s liberation and license, he made her sound like a fellow Tory pundit, only in taffeta: Her quill quivered on behalf of the same neat, elite Western standards that he with his fountain pen defended on the editorial page.

  • It features a photo of one-time teen-age- girlfriend-of-Jerry-Seinfeld's, Shoshanna Lonstein, posing in "her own holiday creation--a garnet self striped strapless silk taffeta dress--$255."

  • Through all such intensely concocted efforts, year after year, set ablaze by fierce lights and lashed at by loud music, rows of tall, beautiful, amiable young women stride and pause and turn, obligingly decked in strands of rope, piles of feathers, patches of metal, mountains of taffeta.

  • The ensemble that fetched the highest price--$17,250 (advance estimate $1,500-$2,000; buyer anonymous)--was a formal black taffeta, strapless dress with a matching shawl-collared jacket designed by Yves St. Laurent for Christian Dior in 1958.


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