Sentences with phrase «like period dress»

Slife's sculptures consist of historically fictitious garments displayed, like period dress, on mannequins and accompanied by explanatory text.

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Possible office - friendly ideas might include a time - period theme such as the 1950s or the Renaissance, or employees can dress up like their favorite TV and film characters.

Chic startups like Rent the Runway and The Black Tux have changed the rental game, offering high - end tuxedos and dresses to rent for a set period of time.

Even considering the Islamic states of Iran and Iraq as well as the deaths caused by Islamic terrorists in the 20th century, including the recent attacks on our country, these hardly compare with the deaths caused by nationalism during the same period, even though a great many national causes dress themselves up in religious jargon just as they have used terms like freedom (e.g., Vietnam and Lenin).

A month that doesn't involve cooking, dressing like the Amish, or talking about my period!)

Children learn first - hand what life was like in the 1830s by dressing in authentic period costume, learning to cook food over the hearth, and celebrating winter festivities.

In the initial period, they are totally dependent on their mother for taking care of them for different things like dressing, feeding, cleaning, teaching and loving.

People attending the Saturday rally in Ellenville's Liberty Square rally were treated to lunch and were surrounded by museum - like dioramas of a coffee shop, featuring mannequins dressed as a waitress, a skier, a golfer and a singer; and artifacts from the Nevele's peak period, including a sign touting comedian Jan Murray.

It was gorgeous, and for that time period, looked more like an elegant evening gown than a wedding dress.

By the way, I love this period of the year because you don't need to overact, just wear your favorite mirrored sunglasses and an effortless - like shirt dress!

When you mentioned how a turtleneck under a dress made you feel like a little kid, I was thinking that that was basically exactly how I felt about the concept of wearing a shirt under a dress, period, but this makes a shirt under a dress look like a MUCH more reasonable, non-kindergarten option for cold weather.

It's so easy to get stuck in a rut and dress the same pieces and style them in the same ways for a long period of time but that becomes so uninspiring after a while and you feel like you could totally benefit from trying something else and «out of your comfort zone».

I'd also like to add a couple of dresses to my travel wardrobe that I can wear a couple of times over the two - week period.

I hemmed the maxi dresses up to above the knee, which made them look a lot more contemporary, but sometimes it's still hard to pair them with anything without the outfit looking like a period costume.

Like most Coen movies, it isn't quite the way they used to make them, but is deeply in love not just with the films of the past, but all of popular culture, from product packaging (principally Dapper Dan hair pomade) through period pop music to modes of dress and politics.

And the production and costume design feels genuine instead of like the «period movie dress - up» we so often see.

We have scenes with, like, 500 extras all in period dress.

It is brightly coloured, hot, and all the characters are dressed like Liberace — their clothes are not period so much as period - inspired modern fashion, and the hair is so huge, lush and fluffy!

Lucky for you, we've got plenty of books to read if you like being swept back a few centuries and into the arms of some dashing rogue in period dress.

Princess Peach also was capable of floating for a short period of time like she was in Super Mario Bros. 2 (and subsequently, the Super Smash Bros. series), only this time she used Perry to hold her aloft rather than her dress.

Historical reenactment is typically only referred to in terms of the eager, largely - white people who don period dress and perform old American wars in places like colonial Williamsburg (Virginia, to clarify).

If you've never heard of live action role playing (or larping), you can think of it like a semi-impromptu, unscripted play where participants dress as characters and pretend to be in alternate worlds, realities, or time periods.

Complement the period look with antique style furniture like this impressive metal bed and vintage sewing table that acts as a unique dressing table.

You can pick anything from the art deco period (1920s & 1930s): handmade 1920s / 1930s dresses and accessories, original garments, makeup & hairstyles, recipes, history tidbits, paintings, photographs, movies... You can interpret the daily prompt in any way you like.