Sentence examples for silk square from inspiring English sources

Tux and pants, with a turquoise silk square tucked into the breast pocket.

The file also contained letters, on F.B.I. stationery, indicating that customs agents had discovered the silk square sewn into a sleeve of her daughter's dress.

Indeed, few accessories are as versatile as the silk square: tie one on a handbag or wrap it around your head like a turban; tuck it in your back pocket or secure it with a brooch.

"The leftover of any product of Hermès has in itself a quality that you must look at and try to find a use for," Mussard said, as she fondled a silk square.

Kiki Smith and Arlene Shechet reached out to 108 living artists to make some art that would be printed on a silk square and strung, like a Tibetan prayer flag, to mark the opening of the museum.

White cotton or white muslin can be substituted for the white silk square.

Benedict received the cardinals-designate from his throne under a soaring dome designed by Michelangelo, as one by one they knelt before the 84-year-old pope and received the red silk square-ridged hats, called birettas, that signify princes of the church.

But the social revolution of the mid-1960s lefthehe silk squares as an accessory worn as a class symbol, by grand ladies on country estates.

Her nature-themed silk squares are all hand-drawn, and the latest collection, featuring kittens and unicorns, gives the trad granny scarf a playful facelift.

My collection of Ali's pochettes provides me with a humorous, daring and colourful alternative to my more common polka dot or Paisley design silk squares.

For Islamic veils, mandatory by law at all times in public, they wore silk squares of lime green, shocking pink or electric blue, tied under the chin like a Fifties housewife, and tilted back at an angle.