She favored white dresses and heels, and knew pop numbers as well as traditional Albanian dances like the shota and the napolon.

Simmons, best known for her photographs of eerily animated ventriloquists' dummies, currently favors little black dresses by Lanvin and Narciso Rodriguez.

For evening, Givenchy favors short dresses, usually in black velvet marked with flounces at the hemline.

She favored expensive well-made dresses with lots of stitching, and visibly worked fabrics such as the white pique which I already described.

Now 56, she favored plain high-necked dresses that showed off the gleaming gold crucifix she usually wears.

In less charitable times, Truman Capote scorned her as a "truck driver in drag" who favored "sleazy" dresses.

It's pointed out more than once that Mattie favors vintage dresses.

For his own collection, Mr. Thimister favors soft, bias-cut dresses.

Many of the men wore Hawaiian shirts and baggy shorts; the women favored flowered dresses with straw hats.

Her waist measurement must have been two-thirds her height, and she favored floral dresses that emphasized her girth.