Miriam wore the same plum velvet coat and now she had also a beret to match. (Truman Capote)
She wore a red knit cap with a pompon on top. (Ann Fairbairn)
Smiling, he lifted his hat, which was new and wide-brimmed... It was toast-colored with a red and white band sround it and was slightly too large for him. (Flannery O'Connor)
A once-elegant lavender hat of impressive size flopped crazily on the side of her head, and she was kept busy brushing back a drooping cluster of celluloid cherries sewed to the brim. (Truman Capote)
She had a hat that was at least five year old and good for another five years. It was of felt, with a dipping brim.
Their tired eyes were shaded by battered felt hats. (Grace Metallious)
Roy was wearing earcaps. (C. P. Snou.)
Eddy dipped a long-visored cap in the bucket of salt water and put it on Dave's head. (Ernest Hemingway)
He was an official driver, as was indicated by the cap he wore at a rakish angle on his blond hair.
Roy had packed a black hat for the journey, and now he pulled it down low over his forehead. (C. P. Snow)
She was dressed in the height of style, her shoulders padded, her hat tilted over one eye. (C. P. Snow)
He turned his hat in his hands, studying it intently. (Paul Bowles)
She arranged her beret in front of a mirror. (Truman Capote)
He lifted his hat from his head with a distracted little gesture. (D. H. Lawrence)
Julia pulled off her hat and tossed it into the rack above. (Evelyn Waugh)
Their black caps were slid over one ear Like berets. (William Goldmg)
Her hood obscured her face, it was hot in the museum; he threw the hood back. (James Baldwin)
She was in her pearls
His ring was a solid plain band of gold, set with a rectangular sapphire. (Clarence Day)
She wore a bangle of charms on her wrist and in her ears little gold rings. (Evelyn Waugh)
Then she bent her head with its rolled mound of white hair close to mine, showing me a very small ar with a pearl on the lobe. (J. G. Cozzens)
Thick green wooden berads hung round her neck. (Phyl-He Bentleu)
She was faultlessly dressed in a dark velvet gown, a double strand of rose pearls around her throat and a large diamond in a gold setting sparkling on her finger.
There was a paler circle showing still against the tan at the base of the third finger, where the ring had been. (Mary Stewart)
She could see his left hand and the narrow band of white flesh on his third finger, where a ring had belatedly been removed after the skin had tanned. (Evan Hunter)
Her arms, bare to the shoulder, were perfect, white and rounded, and decorated with golden bracelets which clinked as she gave him her hand. (Phyllis Bentley)
A gold chain dangled about her neck and her fingers, sensitive and musical-looking, toyed with it. (Truman Capote)
On his wrist was a gold link bracelet that clinked against the table edge. (Carson McCullers)
She had a blue frock with a brooch in the shape of a butterfly. (Lawrence Durrell)
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I wore a black dinner dress with pearls around my neck. (Maude Hutchins)
Shirley was wearing black, and there was an orchid pinned to the waist of her dress. (Evan Hunter)
He pulled out a yellow handkerchief
Of the same shade as his tie
Dixie took a lovely handkerchief from her sleeve and gently patted her nose. Humphrey noticed the whiff of scent which came from the handkerchief. (Muriel Spark)
She brought out a small lace-edged handkerchief from her old black velvet vanity bag, filling the room with the scent of violets. (Angus Wilson)
Her handkerchief was rolled into a ball in the palm of her hand. (Angus Wilson)
She twisted a white handkerchief. (James Baldwin)
He stuffed the handkerchief up his sleeve. (J. F. Powers)
She arranged his handkerchief in his breast pocket. (Richard Jnnes)
She opened the umbrella
Louise took off ner hat and coat, and stood her umbrella to drip on the door-mat...
"... Do take that umbrella off the mat, Mother," Miriam said, starting off towards the kitchen. "It looks so bourgeois. There's a perfectly good stand." (Monica Dickens)
...the shops are crowded and foggy, the floors wet with dripping coats and umbrellas. (Jim Hunter)
She wore her loose brown raincoat and her head was covered with a matching hood; and she played with the tip, white bone in the shape of a claw, of her thin umbrella. (James Baldwin)
The old lady carried an umbrella with broken ribs, a shopping bag over one arm. (James Baldwin)
