My grandmother used to wear these really high, elegant Charles Jourdan stilettos well into her 70s, and I thought she looked great, whatever her age.
Feathers are the ultimate object of lightness, and they appeared in many forms — as a hairy, pale orange dress worn by Carmen Kass, with gold-beaded drop earrings; as sleeves of a knee-length black mousseline coat closed at a high, elegant neck.
She's a regular customer and the banter begins at once, reaching a particularly sprightly pace when she is seated on the shoeshine chair and Misha is fitting her midcalf-high elegant boots, an experience certainly superior to selling a pair of shoelaces.
Today, their apartments are still coveted for their high ceilings, elegant details and gracious layouts.
"These are high quality, elegant brands, but they're small with a local flavor.
On a bluff overlooking the Kiso River here, the oldest castle in Japan rises four stories high, an elegant concoction of white walls and pagoda-style roofs dating back to the early 1500's.
Finally, if you try hard enough, you might be able to walk into the Stillwell Avenue subway terminal just after noon and see the amber-colored past coming right down the tracks to pick you up: a gentleman of a train, its top squared off like a crew cut, its cars illuminated warmly with incandescent bulbs, its whistle high and elegant.
The wine and cheese basket is another classic option, and it has a more high class, elegant appeal than many other types of gift baskets can claim.
When he walked into Stamp's pub, I followed, and found the high-ceilinged, elegant room full of people like him — which is to say, people very much like me.
On April 14 Knopf will publish The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman, edited by Stephen Pascal, 700 pages of high-toned, elegant and both nasty and tasty dish from a behind-the-scenes magazine lifer, largely at Condé Nast, featuring some famous names in and out of media.
Ralph Fiennes hit a career high as the elegant hotel concierge M Gustave.
