Wear your bright gowns now, you devoted women.

Tanned faces, bright gowns, curious stares.

A coach passed by, with its brilliant load of women in bright gowns and picture hats, and two or three immaculate men.

As they whirled in the dance, their full bright gowns looked like an agitated flower-bed suddenly possessed by a wandering tribe of dusky goddesses.

Many of the girls were there, too, in bright gowns and light capes of silk that fluttered in the morning breeze like butterfly wings.