trying-on

Ideally, you should be wearing a loose-fitting t-shirt or even a tank top, so that you can slide clothing on over it and do an informal trying-on session...yes, right there in the front lawn of the yard sale if you have to.

Archive 2009-05-01 Renee 2009

Ideally, you should be wearing a loose-fitting t-shirt or even a tank top, so that you can slide clothing on over it and do an informal trying-on session...yes, right there in the front lawn of the yard sale if you have to.

Dead air guide to yard sales and thrift store clothes shopping Renee 2009

Eventually the trying-on and picking-out was over, and the saleslady brought the bill to where Maria sat.

Exploring Mexico's Markets 2005

In the first place, there were twice as many women as were needed in the trying-on room.

Armadale 2003

He bought the furniture of this room, and had my trying-on room done up.

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

At the next _séance_ of trying-on, the subject passes simultaneously through the hands of several heads of departments, -- the

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

We have seen the process of creating and fitting a dress, the ceremony of trying-on, and the _rôle_ of the creating artist in all this.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

For the rest of the afternoon a great trying-on of gowns ensued, and in their eager appreciation of the pretty things before them they chattered like a flock of magpies, arousing not a little curiosity among a number of the Harlowe House girls who in passing through the hall heard the murmur of voices and subdued laughter.

Grace Harlowe's Problem Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

The final trying-on of the dresses of madame la baronne is a grand day, and often a few friends, both ladies and gentlemen, are invited to assist at the ceremony; for the Parisiennes recognize in some of their masculine friends, and particularly in painters, certain talents for appreciating dress.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

The fifteen hundred dreadful envelopes were all addressed, the back-breaking trying-on of gowns was over, the three hundred and seventy-one gifts were arranged in two big rooms at the hotel, duly ticketed, and the three hundred and seventy-one dreadful personal notes of thanks had been somehow scribbled off and dispatched.

The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923