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Laughton was formerly Pro-Principal of Queen Mary and Westfield College and Dean of Engineering of the University of London. Together with D. F. Warne, Laughton coedited a book, Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, by M. G. Say that is presently in its 16th edition.
Sheer may refer to: Sheer fabric, a semi-transparent and flimsy fabric; Sheer (ship), a measure of longitudinal deck curvature in naval architecture; Sheer curation, a lightweight approach to digital curation; Sheer Islands, Nunavut, Canada; Sheers, a form of two-legged lifting device; Ireen Sheer, a German-British pop singer; The Sheer, a ...
Sheer fabric for clothing offers very little in the way of warmth for the wearer, and for this reason is commonly worn in hot weather. It offers relatively low sun protection . Though sheer stockings have been popular since the 1920s, and have been used in women's nightwear for some time, [ 1 ] the use of sheer fabrics in other clothing has ...
Melanie Griffith just got on board with the sheer dress trend. The 58-year-old actress defied age on Wednesday night when she hit an event in Los Angeles wearing a sheer dress without a bra.
She wears an open lace ruff and a sheer, wired veil frames her head and shoulders. Her skirt is ankle-length and shows her shoes, 1592. English woman wears a fashion seen in many formal portraits of Puritan women in the 1590s, characterized by a black gown worn with a blackwork stomacher and a small French farthingale or half-roll, with a fine ...
A négligée on a mannequin.. The negligee or négligée (French: négligé; lit. ' neglected '), also known in French as déshabillé (; lit. ' undressed '), is a form of see-through clothing for women consisting of a sheer, usually long, dressing gown. [1]
Pantyhose, sometimes also called sheer tights, are close-fitting legwear covering the wearer's body from the waist to the toes. Pantyhose first appeared on store shelves in 1959 for the advertisement of new design panties (Allen Gant's product, 'Panti-Legs') [1] as a convenient alternative to stockings and/or control panties which, in turn, replaced girdles.
Auguste Strobl wears a sheer overdress with full sleeves in the new fashion over a white gown with short puffed undersleeves. A wide ribbon sash is fastened with a gold buckle. German, 1827. Sarah Stanton Blake wears a frilled indoor cap trimmed with sheer ribbon and a high-necked chemise or chemisette under her black dress and scarlet shawl ...