chine

Sitting in the antique store was this piece, made out of papel de chine, newsprint, clay pot and ceramic head.

Delicate gold spiderwebs on a black crepe de chine gown, for example; also a trench coat turned out in blood-red PVC; and a handbag emblazoned with the warning “Beware of Moschino.”

There was Etta’s long blue crêpe de chine evening dress and some white pumps and a rhinestone tiara for her hair.

Her first resort was a black crepe de chine dress which, according to the dressing table mirror, bestowed by means of clever cutting a certain severity of form.

He added that the name comes from the fact that you can “draw a dead-straight line at any point along the bottom of the hull as it rises from the keel to the chine.”