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For evening drama and sex appeal, see Lanvin, where Alber Elbaz has created what can only be described as an exuberant ostrich-feather skirt (warning: it does sit above the knee), £ 1,950.00.

The Wrong Sort of Black? Tina Gaudoin 2010

An ostrich-feather stole is strewn across her lap.

Frances Osborne: My Great-Grandmother's Flapper Fashion: A Celebration In Pictures 2009

"That's a beautiful look -- but I have no place to wear an ostrich-feather evening gown."

Hold the feathers: designs for the office 2008

"That's a beautiful look -- but I have no place to wear an ostrich-feather evening gown."

Work Wear: Designers Who Get It 2008

The great ostrich-feather craze -- for adornment of women's hats, gowns, capes, gloves, shoes and a great deal else -- lasted from roughly 1905 to 1914.

The Drop of a Feather Stephen Birmingham 2008

But there are hours in every day to conjure my imaginary daughters, in banana skirts and ostrich-feather fans.

Venus Hottentot and the Irony of Science Sean 2008

Systrums and ostrich-feather fans were in plentiful supply.

Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

In the ordinary way of things, they would all, every one of them, have been sent off to some minor temple-or else, if nobly born, been relegated to wafting incense about or holding an ostrich-feather fan for the rest of their lives.

Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

She was wearing a yellow frock, cut very short as the fashion then was, with champagne-coloured stockings and slippers to match, and she carried a big ostrich-feather fan.

Burmese Days 2002

Mgomeni, who wore ostrich-feather headgear and a jackal skin slung over his left shoulder, and delivered part of his oration standing on what was once the chair of the secretary of Parliament, with one bare foot on the secretary's table.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997