Shortly thereafter, they donned their trademark sombreros, red satin shirts and black striped pants.

Jeweled pink buttons and a pink satin shirt sweetened the seriousness of blue pin stripes.

He is in black and gold from the waist down and red satin from the waist up: a red satin shirt with epaulets, black pants, boots and gold metal shin armor.

Dressed in a red satin shirt with tribal patterns, a choker of artificial bones at his throat, the chief sat in a rocking chair in the Rosenbergs' finished basement and addressed the 15 first graders.

Narrow skirts were balanced with, say, loose hooded satin shirts, which were worn under cropped jackets.

On the opening night of his week-long run at the Village Vanguard on Tuesday, Chucho Valdés appeared in clothes that could not have been worn by someone of middling talent: a white suit with a long jacket ending just above his knees over a red satin shirt and tie.

After midnight, a singer in a red satin shirt with white fringe stood on a makeshift stage for a performance that brought to mind "American Idol."

The Moidart, resplendent now in a grey satin shirt edged with black silk, grey leggings and riding boots, raised his arm.

By 1946 the band was back together, electrifying their instruments as well as their wardrobe, hiring the Hollywood tailor Nathan Turk to dress them in an outrageous version of the singing-cowboy style: spangles, embroidered satin shirts, bell-bottom pants, short Eisenhower jackets and personalized cowboy boots.

Above that was a scarlet satin long-collared shirt with puffed sleeves and a deep neck.