Rosemary Clooney (Betty Haynes) and Vera-Ellen (Judy Haynes) wear each of Edith Head's designs like a dream
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This outfit works especially well for late-summer or early-fall ceremonies, when the landscape is shifting from green to gold
According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first published use of the saying came in a 1719 poem Epistle to Ramsay by William Hamilton: The bonny Lines therein thou sent me, / How to the nines they did content me. The exact phrasing appeared in 1837 in The New York Herald : One evening a smart young mechanic, dressed to the nines, might have been seen wending his way along Broadway. Today, to the nines commonly describes a situation where someone has gone all out, clothing-related or otherwise
Satin Crepe Silk:often called the "Ferrari" of silks, Silk Charmeuse, known also as Crepe Back Silk Satin (or crepe satin), has softly muted crepe / rough feelon one side and the classic shiny shimmery satin on the other