Introduced for Valentine's Day, the set of four taffeta sachets, shaped like envelopes and in brilliant hues, come in a silk box ($70).
I strolled back and forth as though this were my Tiffany's, looking for that red leather Filofax, that silk box of pearls and diamonds, that last remnant of my past radiance.
To watch the boxers circle the ring in their silk boxing trunks, as we listen to their sound bites, is to be reminded of the irrefutability of being human.
When stripped to the white silk boxing trunks with red fringes and the name "6 Heads" across the front that he wears even when sparring, he could model for a muscle magazine.
They are formal, uptight gift wraps — silk boxes in which women may demurely present themselves, with politesse, deference and flawless snobbery, to a world of rich and powerful men.
No wine, no cheese, no silk prison box, and no fancy suit.
Now, it would seem, is the time for "XL: Forty Years of the Super Bowl," a portly book from Britain's Kraken Sports and Media of Guernsey, which will bind the book in calf leather and encase it in a white, silk-covered box.
Carlton Hobbs, a dealer specialising in antique furniture, has another unusual courtly delight: a 17th-century, silk-embroidered travel box from Lyon.
The theatre was chosen because in 1959 Messel designed its "rose red silk-line jewel box" of an interior on invitation from Rosehill's creator, Sir Nicholas Sekers.
In the 1950's, Boonton was the most heavily industrialized municipality in Morris County, producing aircraft, hosiery, ironwork, chemicals, electronics, textiles, hat boxes, silk and Boontonware plastic plates and cups.
Out Tuesday, it comes in a silk-screened wooden box with a 7-inch vinyl single and the aforementioned obelisk, for $31.95.
