1.   Although the actors are in period dress, the effect is both modern and intimate.

2.   About half the guests came in formal wear and about half sported period dress, although several women admitted they had omitted corsets.

3.   Even swinging the panniers of the cartoon period dresses that Catherine Zuber has designed for her, she retains a plaintive dignity.

4.   Hovde and Meyer minimized the name-dropping in favor of the clever use of actors in period dress speaking directly to the camera.

5.   It features the portrayal of Merriwether Lewis in period dress and speech by Clay S. Jenkinson, a scholar of Thomas Jefferson and Lewis.

6.   Now audiences will have a chance to see period dress from a Continental writer.

7.   So does Dorothy Mane, who favors going back in time and donning period dress.

8.   The actors are in period dress, except for wireless headset microphones snaking out from their scarves and turbans.

9.   The staff of women, wearing simple period dresses of multicolored cotton prints and old-fashioned, fluffy white caps or snoods, offer table service for beverages and desserts.

10.   At night, visitors might don period dress themselves and participate in a village celebration.