In her mouth, investigators found taffeta, a high-end fabric from those days, and they determined that she'd suffocated sometime around October 1941, some 18 months prior.
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
The dress was made from ivory silk taffeta and the boned bodice was decorated with a panel of antique Carrickmacross lace that was once owned by Queen Mary.
It was of dark-green taffeta, lined with water silk of a pale-jade color. The ribbons that tied under the chin were as wide as her hand and they, too, were pale green.
You need be in no hurry about sending those things, said the chief to the principal man, as he was about to leave, except the taffeta. I'd like to have that today.
Her neck, rising from the black taffeta sheath of her basque, was creamy-skinned, rounded and slender, and it seemed always tilted slightly backward by the weight of her luxuriant hair in its net at the back of her head.