Where to put a pin on a jacket

Usage examples of lapel.

Stalinist lapels and hemlines into spangly kitsch, the Day-Glo designer industrial-waste outlets vending pet elements from beyond the actinide seriesin all this synthetic needs-mongering, Kraft and Linda stumble upon a bookstore.

He carried a hand-blaster in a shiny white holster hanging from a white Sam Browne belt, a sparkling brass whistle was suspended from the lapel of his overcoat, and a scarlet and gold aiguillette was wrapped around his shoulder.

And yet I have seen a sprig of arbutus in rough and clumsy buttonholes on weather-faded lapels which, the rest of the twelve-month through, know no other flower.

Jessica had known where to put him because Herbert Franklin Colcannon had obligingly worn a carnation in his lapel.

She pushed up her sleeves, rinsing hands and forearms, flapped the open lapels of her cotte hardie and welcomed the dribble of cool water inside the heavy garment.

He wore creaseless flannel trousers and a brown tweed jacket with patches all over it and bits of dried food on the lapels.

As was the morning coat he wore over it with faultlessly articulated m-notch lapels and a roll collar cut high in the back.

She held the lapels of her green dressing gown together and blinked at Findhorn curiously.

He asked for orange juice, eggs, bacon, and toast, while Professor Flyte adjusted the day-old carnation pinned to the lapel of his somewhat shiny blue suit.

Mr Hynes took off his hat, shook it and then turned down the collar of his coat, displaying, as he did so, an ivy leaf in the lapel.

Jacques, his horse, and the packman go inside, with Jacques and the packman keeping firm hold of each other by the lapels.

Choosing a rose, Jarrock used the pin to fasten it to his coat lapel, all the while watching Cardona from the corner of his eye.

His sudden uncertainty was as obvious as the flag pin in his lapel: Lome was now a veteran, not an aging hippy.

Nikolos said, his eyes taking on a faraway look as he refastened the brooch onto his lapel.

She handed Richman a tape recorder, clipped a microphone to his lapel, and told him what they were going to do.