accordion pleat

Accordion pleats may also be used in hand fans.

From there, she went through the accordion pleating that connected the two trailers.

His trousers had accordion pleats radiating from the crotch because he'd sat in them too long.

The Hindu resident's mouth opened until his three brown chins made perfect accordion pleats.

The folding style consists of three staircase sections that fold together like accordion pleats.

A pair of cast stone, accordion pleated vertical stripes are included on the facade.

"The little wisp of accordion pleating on the back of that blue gown was darling."

This accordion pleat was then fanned into a circle, the inner folds being closer than the outer.

Veiled, too, some with a pretty spray of accordion pleats at the back, were white knee-length sheaths.

It is worn over your regular clothing, but notice the wire-braced accordion pleats at the major joints.

It is now a combination of a circular stairway with round corners and a sort of accordion pleat.

An accordion pleated ramp extended out to touch the capsule; there was a click, and the ice dissolved at the point of contact.

The shell was composed of layered "flex-metal" which could condense itself like a 3-dimensional accordion pleat.

Contour threads, for their part, can cause the skin to fold temporarily into accordion pleats, a problem that usually goes away within a couple of weeks.

He grinned at Abidan, the wrinkles in his weathered face folding upon one another like accordion pleats.

Accordion pleating is a form of tight pleating which allows the garment to expand its shape when moving.

The dupatta is folded accordion pleats at both ends, which are held in place on the left shoulder with a brooch.

Ribbed knits were slender, but mohair gauze skirts had gathers or accordion pleats.

Widmaier-Picasso, who is thirty-eight, wore high-heeled sandals and a black sundress with accordion pleats.

Bryant created a comfortable and concealing tea gown by attaching an accordion pleated skirt to a bodice using an elastic band.

When opened into silvery accordion pleats, wrote the decorator Mark Hampton, "the screen gave the effect of a row of giant prisms."

Not box pleats, accordion pleats or umbrella pleats, but random, wrinkled pleats that look as if they've been crushed in the hand.

The countess and Helena, in particular, are dazzlingly fashionable with New Look full skirts, accordion pleats, scalloped hems and other period details.

The capacitors were sheets of membrance with fine accordion pleats, all wrapped in a Turkish-towel texture, a pictorial tale of an epic struggle for surface.

But a ballet corp never got to dress like this - in spectacular dresses of flowing peach chiffon, with diamond-shaped insets and cascades of accordion pleats.