There was a delicious lead-in with a black bolero and its turtle-necked white silk blouse over a soft pearl-gray jersey skirt cut just below the knee with unpressed side pleats.
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Pleats are categorized as " pressed ", that is, ironed or otherwise heat-set into a sharp crease, or " unpressed ", falling in soft rounded folds.
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He showed accordion pleats, box pleats and unpressed pleats that gave the clothes a schoolgirl insouciance, but provided a more sophisticated look, with slim skirts that had pleats only at the hem in back.
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The feeling was best captured in Lang's combinations of white sleeveless T-shirts and starkly white shimmering nylon skirts with unbound and unpressed pleats, and in his simple white dresses with a layer of black tulle innocently spreading the skirt open.
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Under the laurel-leaf crown, Bouley, 46, wore an unpressed white shirt, dusty blue jeans and duck-foot-shaped French shoes, his curly hair what the French would call a melange of peppers : black, white and gray.
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Characteristic features of the smock-frock are fullness across the back, breast, and sleeves folded into " tubes " ( narrow unpressed pleats ) held in place and decorated by smocking, a type of surface embroidery in a honeycomb pattern across the pleats that controls the fullness while allowing a degree of stretch.
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Britain's Sea Fencibles were duly formed on 14 May 1798 " for the protection of the coast, either on shore or afloat; comprising all fishermen and other persons occupied in the ports, and on the coast, who, from their occupations are to be unpressed . " Their tasks were to defend the Martello towers along the British coastline, patrol and survey the beaches where a French invasion force might land, and to maintain a fleet of armed commercial vessels in order to capture enemy shipping and defend against invasion barges.
