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The Eugene Field poem "The Duel" concerns a duel between a "gingham dog" and a "calico cat." In Tell Taylor's popular song "Down By the Old Mill Stream" (1908), "You" was "dressed in gingham, too." Brigitte Bardot famously wore a pink gingham dress when she got married. This started a trend which caused a shortage of this fabric in France.
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
85 Surprising Flower Meanings With Pictures mariannehope - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Giving flowers is a ...
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, American entertainer Judy Garland wore a blue-and-white dress in her seminal role as Dorothy Gale throughout the film. Also nicknamed the "Dorothy dress", [1] [2] [3] it was designed for the film by MGM costume designer Adrian, who based it on L. Frank Baum's description of Dorothy's dress in his children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
Embroidered cutwork on cambric Morning blouse made of cambric Corsage made of cambric (1898). Cambric or batiste is a fine dense cloth. [1] It is a lightweight plain-weave fabric, originally from the commune of Cambrai (in present-day northern France), woven greige (neither bleached nor dyed), then bleached, piece-dyed, and often glazed or calendered.
In the background, Van Gogh used short brushstrokes of light blue and pink, giving the impression that the fruit is sitting in a basket. Van Gogh may have seen Claude Monet's Still Life with Apples and Grapes in Paris, but while the subject matter is roughly the same, the composition is not. Monet paints the fruit on a diagonally placed table ...
In Britain and the US, clothing that regained mainstream popularity from 2020 to 2024 included clothes with sports logos [207] and color blocks, Harrington jackets, brothel creepers, [208] Miami Vice inspired suits in candyfloss pink, ice blue, buttercup yellow or mint green, [209] baseball jackets, stonewashed denim jackets, [210] and red or ...
Manufactured as an undyed muslin woven fabric, typically using cotton or linen fiber, the textile was highly starched and then calendered to create a smooth surface for precise ink and graphite lines. Although drafting linen was most typically used in creating original drawings, it was occasionally used as the underlying support for blueprints ...