"Dress shirt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... calfskin low shoes. Plain black silk socks. Gray striped trousers (the darkest you have). Morning coat and single-breasted black waistcoat. White dress shirt (see that cuffs show three-quarters of an inch below coat sleeves). Stand-up wing collar. Tie and gloves are enclosed. Boutonniere will be at the church. Be at the church yourself at three ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... table-centre for mother had cost only one and threepence, but looked every bit as nice as those displayed in the shop-windows for six and nine. The shield of white wadded satin seemed an ideal protector for a dress shirt, and if father did not use it as such when he went out in the evening, it would be his fault, not hers! The blotters for Miles and Jack, the work and shoe bags for the girls, to say nothing of endless odds and ends for cousins ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... when the tailor's boy brought home a package, the daughters tore it open ruthlessly, and discovered—as they sat limply with it spread out in its pristine beauty on the sofa before them—a white broadcloth dinner suit—with a watered silk vest. Half an hour later, when a pleated dress shirt with pearl buttons came, it found three daughters sitting with tight lips waiting for their father—and six tigers' eyes glaring hungrily at the door through which he was expected. At six o'clock, when they ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White
... happened? Carefully groping along the mantelpiece, he at last found the electric button and turned on the light. There, stretched out on the floor, lay Underwood, with a bullet hole in his left temple, from which blood had flowed freely down on his full-dress shirt. It was a ghastly sight. The man's white, set face, covered with a crimson stream, made a repulsive spectacle. On the floor near the body was a ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... straight and unflinchingly into my eyes, then with a sudden movement he drew the left cuff of his dress shirt up to the elbow and held out his forearm for me to ...
— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux |
