Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.
Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue;
She was handmade, with a painted face, and she wore a gingham dress to conceal her baby bulge.
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the President's outer office.
Red gingham ribbon twirled and tied in a big bow cooks up a hearth-warming country look for this wreath.
In the first image, the tiny royal perches on a gingham-print armchair dressed in a pretty printed dress and baby pink cardigan, her hair carefully brushed and styled.
A widely-circulated tale describes Leland and Jane Stanford's supposed visit to Harvard University's President, dressed in a suit of homespun cloth and a faded gingham dress.
There was a large, low-ceiled room, with clacking, rattling machines at which men in white shirt sleeves and blue gingham aprons were working.
The thought of Leland and Jane Stanford, by this time quite wealthy, arriving at Harvard in a homespun threadbare suit and faded gingham dress is amusing, but highly inaccurate.
Examples of plain weave fabric include muslin, percale, cheesecloth, chambray, gingham, batiste, organdy, chiffon, shantung and homespun.
Lee: Well, maybe you'd like it better, if we covered it with a gingham throw.
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