A simple cream wool coat or a fake shearling coat in cream with shaggy lining provided a plainer top layer.
A watch with a fancy chain and fob can make an ideal dress suit accessory, whereas a plainer item can complement a casual outfit and look great with jeans.
But Muller has the merit of clearly outstriding his predecessors, and with his accustomed perspicuity made the way even plainer for his successors to see than he himself was able to see it.
Dressed as she used to be in Petersburg society, it was still more noticeable how much plainer she had become.
Even then, the basic items were the same, but a younger woman might opt for a black corset or bra, whereas older women were encouraged to stick to plainer pieces.
For those preferring plainer fare, there also are menu items such as grilled cheese sandwiches and pot roast.
However, exclusive stores carry more elaborate selections without their plainer counterparts.
If the cabinets take up 80 percent of your budget, opt for plainer or lower cost tiles and accessories to round out the job.
If the jersey is plainer, it may cost less.
If you are looking for a more cost effective solution to suit your needs, welded steel stoves are plainer and cost a lot less.
If you like T-shirts, opt for plainer shirts, rather than those sporting fussy graphics or text, for example.
If you're putting a plan in front of potential outside investors, color may be attractive, but a functional plan circulated among your staff for a well-established business may have a plainer appearance.
Most of the time, you'll want to opt for a darker, plainer bottom, especially if you're wearing a bright print on top.
Of course, the custom designed carrying case or the designer carrying case cost more than a plainer case.
Of one-volume books on the same subject, Dr Braga's Curso da Historia da Litteratura portugueza and his Theoria da Historia da Litteratura portugueza (3rd ed., 1881) may be recommended, though the plainer Historia da Litteratura portugueza, by Dr Mendes dos Remedios (3rd ed., 1908) has the considerable advantage for foreign students of including a large number of selected passages from the authors named.
Princess Mary went back to her room with the sad, scared expression that rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer.
Rarer metals such as platinum or titanium are generally more expensive, and unusual settings or arrangements may also cost more than plainer variations.
The deeper tints are, however, peculiar to the nuptial plumage, or are only to be faintly traced at other times, so that in winter the adults - and the young always - have a much plainer appearance, ashy-grey and white being almost the only hues observable.
The greatest progress has been made in the manufacture of cotton fabrics, principally of the plainer and coarser grades used by the common people.
The Spokes web site is now running on a lighter, less colorful, plainer, simpler, theme.
There seems moreover to have been a sort of rivalry between mother and daughter for the chief place in Necker's affections, and it is not probable that the daughter's love for her mother was increased by the consciousness of her own inferiority in personal charms. Mme Necker was of a most refined though somewhat lackadaisical style of beauty, while her daughter was a plain child and a plainer woman, whose sole attractions were large and striking eyes and a buxom.
These tops, when paired with a simpler or plainer pair of pants, can be worn for casual dinners or movie dates.
Try a lemon-poppyseed cake with raspberry frosting or a plainer cake with lemon citrus peel in the buttercream and fresh raspberries on top.
Two tone diamond engagement rings are an elegant and distinctive alternative to plainer engagement ring designs.
When I find my work particularly difficult and discouraging, she writes me letters that make me feel glad and brave; for she is one of those from whom we learn that one painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.