Until they became widely available in the 1940s, there had always been a sharp division between silk stockings and cheaper, more hard-wearing ones, made from cotton and lisle (respectable) or fake silk (dubious).
He dresses impeccably — in sharp suits with silk ties and matching pocket handkerchiefs — and keeps his hair neat and dark.
Ms. Sharp calls her silk and wool rug Moses Brown (on the wall, top, brown and black wavy stripes); it costs $4,455.
However, the smart shorts - already emerging as a mini-trend for next summer - were fabulous in sharp-cut shantung silk.
A scarf is so light that most knives, even when razor sharp, either grab the silk or leave a ragged cut.
In a small open pool in the vegetation, about halfway down The Patch, there had been, this year and last, a chain pickerel that was either too smart or too inept to get itself around an assemblage of deer hair, rabbit fur, turkey quill, marabou silk, and sharp heavy wire.
Silk threads (and silk ribbons).
The White Countess, as a result, runs the risk of becoming an inert system of cliches, a Shanghai Revisited teeming with the usual suspects - sharp-suited gangsters, silk-sheathed prostitutes and troubled westerners.
Try them with sharp heels and a slinky silk blouse or T-shirt for an evening look.
They have been spotted prowling pavements from Paris to Beijing, slinging block-color tote bags from arms clad in graphic silk blouses and sharp leather sleeves.
