Crepon

Godey's magazine, 1894: "The tiny overlapping sequins of jet trim a black silk skirt effectively, and the narrow braids look well on the cloth skirts, but trimming on crepon does not look well excepting on the waists." ❋ DC (2010)

I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She chose a pale blue crepon, very plain and very understated chic. ❋ Neels, Betty (1984)

A woman in a pink crepon dressing-gown broke off polishing a brass tap. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

Rosy-complexioned, with ample breasts, she was in her pajamas, of candy-pink crepon, washed so often that they allowed dark shadows to show through. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1952)

She went in front of him down a hallway, and the crepon of her pajamas was caught between her buttocks. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1952)

= The largest designs of crepon show a raised or puffed appearance. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Gertrude, arrayed in her finest Paris gown, -- a white embroidered crepon with garniture of exquisite lace, -- received the guests at six o'clock, in line with the governor and the mayors of six other cities, together with Mrs. Bateman as president of the "P.W. 's", and Judge Bateman of the City Reform Club. ❋ Helen M. Winslow (N/A)

The crest of the divide was studded with great outcroppings of sand-stone, and in the shadow of one giant rock we laid down to rest before we descended into that barren valley where the heat-waves shimmered like crepon silk. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

The tunic may be made of cotton crepon, the mantle of dyed muslin. ❋ Walter Ben Hare (1915)

Of more importance is crepon, in the manufacture of which the Annamite excels the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Asia, looking very pretty in her new crepon, cast shy glances at Joe ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

"Here is a dress I brought for Asia," she said, shaking out the folds of a soft crepon. ❋ Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1906)

Asia, looking very pretty in her new crepon, cast shy glances at Joe Eichorn, who had been "keeping company" of late. ❋ Unknown (1902)

The lovely brown crepon, she said it was the most hideous thing she had ever seen, and that it was the deed of an assassin to offer it to me. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)

She wore a pink crepon dressing-gown, with cream guipure lace at the neck and wrists. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

With the black crepon skirt she wore a heliotrope blouse, and she stood, one foot showing beyond the skirt, in a statue-like attitude, her pale parasol held negligently over one shoulder. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Peggy's muslin as from the homely crepon of the vicar's daughters. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

Loulou, for of course it was she, wore a cream-colored silk crepon dress. ❋ Max Simon Nordau (1886)