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"Crepe de chine" Quotes from Famous Books

... and bought (so the town said) her very hairpins in New York. When Angie Hatton came home from the East the town used to stroll past on Mondays to view the washing on the Hatton line. Angie's underwear, flirting so audaciously with the sunshine and zephyrs, was of silk and crepe de Chine and satin—materials that we had always thought of heretofore as intended exclusively for party dresses and wedding gowns. Of course, two years later they were showing practically the same thing at Megan's dry-goods store. But that was always the way with Angie ...

— One Basket • Edna Ferber

... come near me," said Allison, with a warning shake of her head, "for I am going to wear my cerise crepe de chine. It's lovely by itself, but by the side of anything the shade of your pink mull it's the most hideous, sickly colour you ever saw. I wish you'd wear that pale green dress, Kitty. You look sweet in that, and it goes ...

— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston

... once, and would be back as soon as possible—well, if not in an hour, then in two at latest. She was full of compunction, but she knew Undine would forgive her, and find something amusing to fill up the time: she advised her to go back and buy the black hat with the osprey, and try on the crepe de Chine they'd thought so smart: for any one as good-looking as herself the woman would probably alter it for nothing; and they could meet again at the Palace Tea-Rooms at four. She whirled away in a cloud of explanations, and Undine, left ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... crepe de chine dress, setting off the silvery whiteness of her hair, was a calm, unemotional figure as she sat ...

— The Yellow Streak • Williams, Valentine

... apricot pink crepe, with hints of silver lace peeping through its chiffon draperies. Alicia's was corn-coloured crepe de chine with cherry velvet decorations, and Bernice rejoiced in a white embroidered net, ...

— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells