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We lead her out of the hospital, well after ten, still in her housedress and slippers, though with new compression socks that the doctors have given her.

-- The set here on Stage 9 at Sony Pictures Studios was a near-perfect duplicate of a suburban American home of the 1950s, with a vintage refrigerator in the kitchen and a stone fireplace in the living room, where a wife clad in a coat and housedress put down her bag of groceries and placed her arms around her hardworking husband at the end of a long day.

door-knocker earrings & tired blue housedress be harnessed

A group funded by restaurants began running ads in New York branding Bloomberg - shown in a housedress and scarf - as "the nanny".

a woman with short curly hair, flowered housedress,

It revealed slippers, a pale blue housedress, and then all of Doc Mary.

We both get into old housedresses and do the work together." (39) Within the historical context of cold war America, it is a stunningly transgressive image: a husband, in a housedress, helping his wife with various domestic chores.

She always wore a cotton housedress over a pair of men's jeans and men's thick rubber gumboots.

Perpetually in the kitchen creating her famous sweets and Brazilian snacks, she is typically dressed in a housedress and frilly apron with a scarf tied around her head.

Mom left her busy chores of farm and household and, in her housedress and the 2-inch heeled shoes which she always wore, she came out and played softball with us in the uneven cow pasture.

She reminded me of my grandmother in many ways--milky white hair, a blue-and-yellow housedress with pockets sewn on the front, and stockings that were all jumbled.

She had the tan housedress on, but it didn't matter--she was not my mother.

When missionaries arrived to check on Leah and hire her as a church interpreter, one was horrified to see Leah wearing a "squaw dress." The cotton housedress did not change seasonally or annually according to European American fashion cycles and in Oklahoma had become a symbol of a "civilized" Indian repudiating education and returning to traditions.