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Train (clothing) Court dress with long train. Portugal, c.1845. In clothing, a train describes the long back portion of a robe, coat, cloak, skirt, overskirt, or dress that trails behind the wearer. It is a common part of ceremonial robes in academic dress, court dress or court uniform. It is also a common part of a woman's formal evening gowns ...
A mantua (from the French manteuil or 'mantle') is an article of women's clothing worn in the late 17th century and 18th century. Initially a loose gown, the later mantua was an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and either a co-ordinating or contrasting petticoat . The mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the 1670s.
Two Trains Running. Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward ...
The other two trains (green and red) tire from initially going to fast, allowing Azul to win the race. Swiper continually hampers their efforts by initially successfully stealing, and then discarding, a section of the blue line's train tracks (repaired by Dora and Boots after recovering the missing track pieces) and then unsuccessfully ...
1860s in Western fashion. Fashions of the 1860s include square paisley shawls folded on the diagonal and full skirts held out by crinolines. Auguste Toulmouche 's Reluctant Bride of 1866 wears white satin, and her friend tries on her bridal wreath of orange blossoms. 1860s fashion in European and European-influenced countries is characterized ...
Andrew Vachss was the author of 33 novels and three collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays, song lyrics, and graphic novels. [16] As a novelist, he was perhaps best known for his Burke series of hardboiled mysteries; Another Life [17] constituted the finale to the series. [18]
One of the most talked-about aspects of a wedding is the bride's dress. You know, how beautiful she looked, how the groom's eyes' lit up when he saw her... but one bride's dress has everybody talking.
Lord Edgware Dies. Followed by. Three Act Tragedy. Murder on the Orient Express is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, [1 ...