1.   A crochet dress by Vivienne Tam, over a short slip by Calvin Klein, left, and an embroidered sheer dress by DKNY over a Calvin Klein slip.

2.   A Givenchy black sleeveless embroidered dress with train.

3.   Abir, his Jerusalem-based magazine, used to feature a local woman in traditional embroidered dress on every cover.

4.   By spring, retailers predict, there will be an even bigger glitz blitz when embroidered floral dresses and metallic sandals hit the stores.

5.   Elena Avila, a psychiatric nurse, donned a headband to join a ceremonial procession with Mayan healers in colorful embroidered dresses and Aztec dancers wearing brightly feathered headdresses.

6.   For summer, she has added tiny matching handbags to her embroidered dresses in sherbet colors.

7.   Khandumi Moustafa, an elderly woman wearing a traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, went running toward the marchers, shaking her head.

8.   Most of the women dress traditionally in long cotton bloomers, an embroidered dress, apron and jacket of coarse denim, made and dyed in the village.

9.   Mrs. Alviar wore an embroidered Filipino wedding dress.

10.   Nelofer Pazira was wearing the same embroidered Afghan dress in which she walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival last May.