silk-stockings

If there be but one lady present, pumps and silk-stockings are indispensable.

The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

On the other hand, the ideals of very many of the silk-stocking reformers did not relate to the questions of real and vital interest to our people; and, singularly enough, in international matters, these same silk-stockings were no more to be trusted than the average ignorant demagogue or shortsighted spoils politicians.

VIII. The New York Governorship 1913

On the other hand, the ideals of very many of the silk-stocking reformers did not relate to the questions of real and vital interest to our people; and, singularly enough, in international matters, these same silk-stockings were no more to be trusted than the average ignorant demagogue or shortsighted spoils politicians.

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

IN the year when President Garfield died, New York saw the unusual sight of two young “silk-stockings, ” neither of whom had ever been in politics before, running for office in a popular election.

III. Early Lessons in Politics 1904

The gauze silk-stockings offering no protection to the tortured feet even when the boots and shoes were made of more than paper stoutness; while the fashionable woolen wrap, even the fur collar or coat could not counterbalance the danger to health from blouses, low-necked and fashioned of stuff scarcely thicker than cobwebs.

Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards 1897

Another little bit of quite obscure news I heard from Elizabeth: she was in a carriage with her Cousin, old Mr. Rhoid, the other day, when he showed her a man walking along, who he said was once the reigning Dandy of London; "he had seen that man following the hounds, in silk-stockings and pumps and always taking the lead of the whole hunt, nevertheless."

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Christmas only comes once a year, and why shouldn't we fellers have our banquet as well as the silk-stockings?

A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892

On the other hand, the ideals of very many of the silk-stocking reformers did not relate to the questions of real and vital interest to our people; and, singularly enough, in international matters, these same silk-stockings were no more to be trusted than the average ignorant demagogue or shortsighted spoils politicians.

Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888

And if bread and bacon have not kept pace with our population, and we have many more people in want of them now than in Queen Elizabeth's time, it seems vain to tell us that silk-stockings have kept pace with our population, or even more than kept pace with it, and that we are to get our comfort out of that.

Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold 1855

He had a white velvet suit, covered over with stars and orders, a neat modest wig and bag, and peach-coloured silk-stockings with silver clasps.

Catherine: a story 1839