1.   A chiffon wraparound blouse in pale blue and brown stripes played over culottes in brown tattersall checks.

2.   Hand-rolled ruffles drizzled down the fronts of chiffon blouses or around the edges of patent leather jackets.

3.   On Cher, for example, May updates a simple pair of black pants and a white cotton tank with a sheer black chiffon blouse.

4.   Saint Laurent showed his classic suits with sheer chiffon blouses.

5.   Then I bought a pair of denim flares with braided detailing at the waist, a flowing chiffon blouse and tinted aviator sunglasses.

6.   And an ochre skirt flared beneath a yellow chiffon blouse.

7.   So were the signature chiffon blouses, with long neck wraps or sashed belts, often in polka dots, sometimes in luscious iridescent shades.

8.   Underneath, he suggests a simple silk T-shirt, or a chiffon collarless blouse.

9.   He wound broad sashes round the waists of the skirts of day suits or finished bright printed chiffon blouses like cummerbunds.

10.   Sheer chiffon blouses, opened nearly to the waist, were studded with strategically placed embroidery reminiscent of Moghul decoration or strewn with tiny gilt coins.