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
... style of court 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 a ... This was worn with a white satin or black silk collarless waistcoat, and white neckcloth ... rooms matching breeches with white silk stockings, and a white neck-cloth was worn ...
... style of court 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 a ... This was worn with a white satin or black silk collarless waistcoat, and white neckcloth ... rooms matching breeches with white silk stockings, and a white neck-cloth was worn ...
Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:
“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“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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