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I thought this organdie would be more comfortable and appropriate this warm day.

Her wedding gown was a fine, sheer organdie, simply and daintily made.

The baby, lost in drapes and frills of white lace and organdie.

A slim girl, wearing diaphanous organdie, was standing clutching an immense black hat.

The design is in this way transferred onto the material (linen, cotton, silk, organdie, etc).

Organdy or organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth made.

Anne looked beautiful in a dress of white organdie with a wreath of orange blossom on her dark hair.

At each gathering there was invariably some lovely young thing in tulle or organdie to whom Philip had offered a ride home.

Choosing a cool organdie dress that did not look too wrinkled, Ginny slipped into it and studied herself critically in the small mirror.

Mother insisted on some smart little knitted sweaters and one pretty dress of rose-pink organdie with delicious frills.

"I've got the ten dollars grandpa sent me, and with eight of it I'm going to buy Lizzie King's organdie muslin.

Because in his shining colours he reflected her back in coral and violet, a shimmer of organdie, pearl and secure.

'There, there, Fred,' said Nobby, currently a vision in organdie. '

The shrunken white organdie rose and fell as if she were strug- gling to be free and to break out of it altogether.

Overcloth made from cotton organdie, 114cm wide, £8.01/m, from Whaley's.

She noted below her Mrs Meavy (from the Development) looking incredibly smart in a ruffled organdie dress.

Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uniforms and jingling spurs and flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing.

And as bridesmaid she had a chance to wear the adorable dress of rose-pink organdie with its embroidered blue and white spots which mother had gotten her.

She wore a long full-skirted dress of white organdie and a headdress of artificial lilies of the valley, and carried white roses and carnations.

The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she'd be sure to remember it.

'The first dress I bought from Mainbocher was a model; a lovely organdie embroidered with navy - the first short evening dress I ever had.

How pretty and fresh Cathleen had been that day in a swirl of blue organdie with fragrant roses at her sash and little black velvet slippers laced about her small ankles.

Thea got up, washed her hot face and arms, and put on the white organdie dress she had worn last night; it was getting too small for her, and she might as well wear it out.

Her gray organdie dress, with its cherry-colored satin sash, disguised with its billows and ruffles how childishly undeveloped her body was, and the yellow hat with long cherry streamers made her creamy skin glow.

Over the inlet and outlet valves we will rivet seals of small-mesh cloth painted with an incombustible that will keep out the fine sand: either what the French call organdie or, if we can't get that, chador-material from Isfahan.

But the organdy seems as if it grew on you."

"Do you really think the organdy will be best?"

She had changed to a fluffy summer organdy and tied her hair with a lavender ribbon.

And don't complain if you have to wear organdy."

When I slept it was under a canopy of white organdy, and a nightlight guarded me from the hall.

Organdy and lace collars may be added for $71 to $78 each.

There was a wide bed, a boudoir table and an easy chair, all decorated in frilly white organdy.

It was a white cotton organdy gown with large ruffled sleeves, puffed at the shoulder.

Organdy or organdie is the sheerest cotton cloth made.

Increasingly, nylon chiffon, taffeta, and organdy were used in petticoats.

Put on your white organdy, by all means, Anne," advised Diana decidedly.

He worked in fine silk, sheer organdy and changeable taffetas, The Times said.

Today, designers have revived variations on the Bettina blouse, often in diaphanous organdy.

I was wearing pink organdy and a bunch -of daisies from the garden, not the wild kind.

On her feet she wore snow-white tabi of lightweight organdy.

Her first design featured pale green leaves stitched onto top sheets and pillowcases, covered with organdy.

I didn't even know what organdy was."

A dress with a drawstring waist seemed less shapeless than it ought to have in a silk-satin organdy.

Organdy is a balanced plain weave.

I wore my new cream organdy with the violets in it and carried a big bouquet of pink peonies.

Organza is the filament yarn counterpart to organdy.

Fabrics (the organdy, lower left, is $19 for almost 40 inches in 51 colors) can be screen-printed from a large selection of patterns.

One of her suggestions is a five-piece wardrobe in embroidered organdy and taffeta that will cover most evening occasions.

Organdy (a sheer fabric), lawn, and batiste begin as the same greige goods.

The 1939 evening dress in ivory cotton organdy, with red, white and blue embroidery, was part of a "tricolor" collection celebrating French nationalism.