(1) Few schools had a special uniform for summer, so the girls remember having to go tramping in the heat in serge gym frocks and white blouses and regulation footwear.(2) How much of a rebel can you be in an ugly blue serge skirt with stiff box-pleats?(3) All the proud fathers were dressed to kill in their three-piece serge suits and trilby felt hats perched to one side.(4) Made in 1957 for my grandfather, constructed out of naval serge and cut by a master at Thresher and Glenny, it's a dazzling bit of three-piece craftsmanship.(5) The part I love best was when the wall fell directly in front of the greaseball selling a black serge suit to a minister, laying it on thick about the quality of the goods and what a saving the minister would make.(6) He paid Ôö¼├║5.5.0 for a serge suit.(7) By the end of the next day, they had shaved off her blonde curls, taken away her clothes, dressed her in a regulation serge frock, apron and tippet, and hung a tag around her neck with her name engraved on it.(8) Dewey and Suze sat in the back seat, a foot or so of black serge between them.(9) Add pyjamas, sweater, serge uniform, flying boots, scarf, flying jacket, helmet and goggles, harness and parachute and it becomes a tight fit.(10) She wore a navy serge skirt, white silk blouse, saxe blue cardigan, and a yard of broad saxe blue ribbon at either end of her waist-long plait.(11) He was the ship's tailor and could turn a serge uniform inside out to renew its appearance.(12) For the men it was the rough serge trousers with the obligatory braces and, of course, the caipin!(13) It is worn with the fermizi, a jacket of velvet or serge with long sleeves that is thrown over the back; waist-high white stockings; and a shirt with wide sleeves made of cotton, muslin, or silk.(14) ├ö├ç├┐We trust that we are not pushed back into the serge uniforms of the past in line with this apparent fashion trend,├ö├ç├û he says.(15) She had her hair twisted into knots at the back of her head and she was dressed in a black serge with grey satin.(16) Eighteen-year-olds in rough serge uniforms with rusting weapons will bleed to death in the dirt.
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