There were long, floating organza dresses and skinny column dresses, some the color of porcelain, others a copper color.

It was a feeling of energy, conveyed in blown-back pleats and the quivering curls of a white organza dress topped with a hard bolero.

There was a beautiful flowing white organza dress, with a simple strip of a bodice and a tiny ring of organza as a shawl.

There were intricately pieced organza dresses, so sheer and delicate that they looked like the filmy residue of a dress that had disappeared.

For a teatime show, she wore an organza dress, top left, with 10 separate dress fronts placed mille-feuille style on a transparent sheet.

"But for a medical event, I was restrained - I dressed the way I thought my husband would like, in a puffy white organza dress."

Instead she was wearing a fresh blue organza dress with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and trimmed with fine lace.

The other inmate, the white girl, was scarcely more than twenty, wearing an ankle-length organza dress and a corsage on one wrist.

Her spring collection was inspired by clouds, which explains the huge organza dresses and swaths of softly draped gray satin.

The feathered sweaters in a bias pattern looked as cool and unforced as the long organza dresses and the casual wool pantsuits.