He balanced these glittering dresses with quiet tie-dyed velvet sheaths and long, clingy styles in black crepe or crushed velvet.

The orchestra is belting out lambadas and the Rolling Stones; the dance floor is a blur of sequined microminis and black velvet sheaths writhing, swooping, shimmying.

She was dressed in a white velvet sheath that clung to her like a second skin and exposed plenty of thigh and cleavage.

He put dandy jackets over flowing or pipestem pants and his evening dresses included Empire waist taffetas with smocked tops as well as velvet sheaths.

She was wearing a long black velvet sheath.

See, like a sword, a male body in the black velvet sheath of a hill.

Perfect for a simple evening is the Gap's velvet sleeveless sheath in black, emerald, plum or red ($78).

Veronica Hearst, who wore a long velvet sheath, told Bill Blass that she bought the dress 10 years ago.

But she was already surrounding him, already drawing him deep into that glorious velvet sheath, already urging him to match her frantic rhythm.

There are velvet sheaths that Mr. Galindo embossed by hand, then printed with an iron-fence pattern.