shantung

• “Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren gave his embroidered looks an exotic, Far East twist, as in this look with its red silk shantung embroidered smoking jacket.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Designers Adore Adornment for Fall

• “I remember a red gingham dress embellished with red ric rac, a black and blue plaid with black velvet collar and cuffs, a lovely cream with tiny red rosettes and one of those big collars trimmed in cream - colored eyelet, a salmon shantung that I wore for graduation from high school, and my very favorite -- a cream with pink and periwinkle flowers.”

  1990's Sewing Patterns

• “But exotic, bizarre words like "chivari" and "shantung" and "Asscher" have never been in my vocabulary before now.”

  The Huffington Post: The 8 Truths About Weddings (That No One Ever Tells You)

• “Black Chambray and Vintage Leaf Two Tone: a classic black chambray front's offset by a back made from a loose-leaf pattern "clearly inspired by Japanese paintings" on '50s-era rayon shantung, not to be confused with rayon Wang Chung, as that only comes in Dance Hall grays.”

  The Huffington Post: Thrillist: General Knot & Co: Dapper Looks From Salvaged Materials

• “At Mr. Lauren's show, there were silk shantung smoking jackets, shirts with mandarin collars and a healthy dose of dragon embroidery and the color jade.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Burst of Lush, Opulent Glamour

• “And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries.”

  The Guardian: Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich

• “For forays into the city, there were three-piece suits and for the evening a tuxedo in silk shantung, cream with black lapels and tie.”

  The Huffington Post: Milan Men's Fashion Week: S&M, Silk Suits & McQueen (PHOTOS)

• “The only problem with the embroidered shantung fabric was how hard it was to match the hummingbirds and delicate bee balm flowers of the valance with the curtain fabric.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sea Escape

• “Now, what do you think of this, the shantung or the peau de soie?”

  NPR: Bailey White: 'The Wedding Horse'

• “She arrived in Paris in a navy shantung suit by Chez Ninon, a chichi Park Avenue dressmaker that supplied her with copies of French couture, which she wore throughout the trip - except, that is, when she was wearing real Givenchy.”

  Gioia Diliberto: Michelle Obama's New Kind of Glamour

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