1.   She saw his eyes flick over her neatly fitting cotton lace blouse and down to her hip-hugging velvet culottes.

2.   He was led to his seat by a young woman dressed in a long green velvet skirt and a high-necked, white lace blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves.

3.   A teal lace blouse was demurely covered with gobs of sequined flowers and paired with a pencil skirt.

4.   The craze grew from familiar flea-market sources, as a new generation riffled through the lace blouses and cast-off crocheted cardigans of previous generations.

5.   They dress in the same white hooped skirts and lace blouses as candomble priestesses and set up their stalls at sites said to be chosen only after divine consultation.

6.   Antique lace blouses with frilled fronts open to the waist combine with snakeskin bell bottoms and brocade slippers.

7.   MacDonald presented theatrical cobweb embroidered dresses suspended from single straps, tailored evening shorts and harem pants and lace peasant blouses, mostly in dramatic black.

8.   Then there were some splendid shiny, fitted trouser suits with top hats, high heels, plenty of finery like lace blouses showing.