Some articles on black, silk, black silk:
Court Uniform And Dress In The United Kingdom - Men's Court Dress - Detailed Descriptions - New Style Court Dress
... dress, worn from the 1840s, comprised a dark, frequently black, cloth (or silk-velvet) single-breasted dress coat (lined with black silk, except for the tail, which was white), with ... This was worn with a white satin or black silk collarless waistcoat, and white neckcloth ... For drawing rooms matching breeches with white silk stockings, and a white neck-cloth was worn ...
... dress, worn from the 1840s, comprised a dark, frequently black, cloth (or silk-velvet) single-breasted dress coat (lined with black silk, except for the tail, which was white), with ... This was worn with a white satin or black silk collarless waistcoat, and white neckcloth ... For drawing rooms matching breeches with white silk stockings, and a white neck-cloth was worn ...
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:
“... black progress and progress for women are inextricably linked in contemporary American politics, and ... each group suffers when it fails to grasp the dimensions of the other’s struggle.”
—Margaret A. Burnham (b. 1944)
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
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