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For the white Talbot-Runhof dress, a base fabric was embroidered with sequins, sewn to the dialysis-machine filter fabric and then bathed in a liquid that dissolved the base, leaving fringes of sequins attached to the filter-cum-dress.
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They told her to remove her dress, leaving only the thin fabric to protect her skin from the whip.
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Picking up a beautifully shaped dress, Jan points out the fabric.
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Naima had already changed out of her house galabia and into the hard fabric of her black dress, a veil wrapped tightly around her head, revealing the delicate shape of her skull.
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That product was the wrap dress, a simple stretch of jersey fabric that ties around the waist.
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The couple would wear traditional dress, with the bride usually wearing a traditional fabric gifted to her by her new parents-in-law, sometimes sewn into a modern Afrocentric design.
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Making another dress would require a trip to Italy to procure the fantastic fabric, reprinting the pattern and re-cutting the style as a one-off.
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The popular fabric of the time was muslin and there were wild rumours that women would have wet the sheer fabric so that the outline of their figure could be seen beneath the dress, although in reality this would probably only have happened at very private gatherings.
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