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Lobolo or lobola in Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Silozi, and northern and southern Ndebele (mahadi in Sesotho, mahari in Swahili, magadi in Sepedi and bogadiSetswana, lovola in Xitsonga, and mamalo in Tshivenda) roora in [ChiShona}, sometimes referred to as "bride wealth" [1] [2] [3] or "bride price" is a property in livestock or kind, which a prospective husband, or head of his family, undertakes to ...
A housewife in 1941 wearing a printed cotton house dress. Nelly Don house dress, May 1922. A house dress is a type of simple dress worn informally at home for household chores or for quick errands. [1] The term originated in the late nineteenth century to describe at-home garments designed for maximum practicality and usually made from washable ...
In 1976, McFadden began the clothing company Mary McFadden Inc. [13] The company was noted for the McFadden-designed pleated dresses, which draped "like liquid gold" down a woman's body similar to those on the caryatids at the Acropolis. The dresses were similar to the earlier work of Henriette Negrin and Mariano Fortuny. [5]
The median age in the city was 47.5 years. 24% of residents were under the age of 18; 3.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 18.1% were from 25 to 44; 30.4% were from 45 to 64; and 23.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 53.2% male and 46.8% female.
Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for My Retirement (Japanese: 老後に備えて異世界で8万枚の金貨を貯めます, Hepburn: Rōgo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu) is a Japanese light novel series written by FUNA.
The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released (or scheduled to be released) in the 2020s. This does not include select titles produced solely by Amazon MGM Studios following their 2022 acquisition of the studio and their own rebrand in 2023 despite them using the 2021 MGM logo in the films themselves.
Shell of a Pacific oyster. The "oyster dress" is a reinterpretation of a 1987 design by John Galliano called the "shellfish dress". [28] [29] Galliano's shellfish dress was named for its layers of "pearl grey" organza ruffles that resembled stacked clamshells, a technically complex design that was actually executed by costumier Karen Crichton. [30]
The European priests paid for new costumes each year and for European masks, funding the group so well that it became the most highly esteemed Fancy Dress Company. One of the group's members was enamored of the character of Robin Hood , but accidentally shot the nephew of a priest in the eye with a stray arrow on Christmas Day in 1930.