plisse

Years ago, the spreads were often made of seersucker, or as some people called the summer-only fabric, plisse.

Hundreds, if not thousands of plisse tucks must have gone into a delectable shirtwaist chiffon dress in opalescent white.

Was he suggesting that his salmon leather pants with a fringe of plisse silk down the sides was an oasis of chic in the middle of a fashion desert?

Handling the train a bit gingerly, I stepped down into the room, swaying gently as the seamstress had instructed, to show off the filmy gussets of silk plisse let into the overskirt.

Invoking their Goth oeuvre, which has drawn attention to their own individual collections, these designers, who are also a couple, showed a concise and masterful collection of leather bomber jackets, with exquisite plisse detail at the waist and cuffs.