11.   Ruth tucked herself further down in the wicker chair and hoisted up her cotton skirt to expose her long legs to the heat of the sun.

12.   She stretched out her legs, bare beneath a white cotton skirt, opened the first few buttons of her blouse, and fanned herself lightly.

13.   Its most ingenious expression was a plain cotton skirt with images of Mickey Mouse grinning against a Mondrian grid pattern.

14.   Ruffled cotton skirts with frayed hems.

15.   There were many pretty elements, like short cotton skirts and sleeveless tops sprouting with embroidered flowers or striped with rows of buttons or shells.

16.   They hired half a dozen seamstresses and started making cotton skirts that they sold to Hong Kong, for export to the United States and Europe.

17.   Mundhenk trembled as she recalled the attack, using her fingernails to pick out slivers of flesh from her blue cotton skirt.