Example sentences for: taffeta

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

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ' He got off the list by turning in his taffeta chaps and getting leather ones instead."

  • 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.


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