There was the radiant new mother sitting in bed in a prim peignoir, surrounded by her beaming kin.
Scene 2: Cheung walks in, kicks off her flip-flops and removes her coat to reveal a diaphanous peignoir.
In Deauville a slender woman appeared on the beach in a bathing-suit of green-stitched ostrich plumes, tossed from her shoulders a corresponding peignoir, plunged into the surge.
Tiverton resident's peignoir set featured in Historical Society exhibit Ester Amaral looked wistfully at the peignoir set as she ran her hand over the salmon-hued satin. She remembered the feel of the luxurious softness against her skin when she wore the nightgown about 70-plus years ago. “Oh, yes. I remember,” Amaral said. “I can’t get over it. I forgot what it looked like. It’s beautiful.” Amaral’s peignoir set is one of more than a dozen clothing items on display ...
June 15, 2013 - Fall River Herald News