Rama had dressed for the occasion in a tight-bodiced, full-skirted black taffeta which whispered sharply when she moved.

There is a tiny, 150-year-old ecru lace christening dress and a black taffeta mourning ensemble dating from the 1890's.

She was wearing a long, old-fashioned dress of black taffeta.

Mrs. Alfred, he noted, had got on her new flowered black and white taffeta.

Silk satin and chiffon trimmed with black taffeta.

There was lime-green crinoline, scarlet silk, black taffeta.

Seen close-up, for example, the paintings turn out to be images of Victorian floral funerary arrangements rendered in subtle color on black taffeta.

The black taffeta rustled; the wheels squeaked.

Strapless black taffeta is the perpetual classic.

There were also safari suits in herringbone linen and shirtdresses in feather-light black taffeta.