So, don your best cloche, wing tips and silk stockings and lift that invisible veil that separates the ages with these highlights.

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Six years later, he was working in films, arranging and composing music for some of the great musicals Gigi, Kiss Me Kate and Silk Stockings.

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When she was with the Maquis, silk stockings and Elizabeth Arden face cream were often dropped for her by parachute, along with Sten guns, radios and grenades.

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If you like, that great comment about silk stockings.

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The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.

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Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings.

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They yanked and tied each other's corsets, buttoned up gowns made of slippery silk, unrolled black stockings over long legs.

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