It was trippy bohemian with printed fabrics that could be mistaken for curtain material.

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The dress "was made from kitchen curtain material -- and people went crazy, " Pulitzer said in her book, "Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Entertaining, " excerpted on her company's website.

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Silt curtain: fine, meshed material suspended in the water to prevent silt escaping from a construction site.

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The current design, using individual strips of material, differs from the original of one 900m long curtain displaying moving images.

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