'I couldn't get any silk the right colour.' 'Oh, I like cotton, if only it's not called sateen!

He was slightly stooped, the sateen back to his waistcoat hiking to the curve of him.

Even the notions and dry-goods, flanking the right wall in stacks and bolts, merge into blur, the outline of a white-sateen and corseted woman's torso surmounting the topmost of the shelves with bold curvature.

The cot had appeared there in the back of the music-store, behind a dark sateen curtain with too few rings on the wire.

The small, flat buttons cost twenty-five cents a dozen; the fine black sateen used for linings may be bought for thirty-five cents a yard, and canvas for interlinings for twenty-five cents.

So hems are constructed to tear away easily, and seams are run rather than stitched, or stitched with fine silk, and the cloth is not too firmly secured to the wide sateen belt.

Of these details the first is that the sateen lining should be black.

This lining, of which all the seams should be turned toward the outside, should end at the belt line, and between it and the cloth outside should be a layer of canvas, cut and shaped as carefully as possible, and the whalebones, each in its covering, should be sewed between the canvas and the sateen.

If a waistcoat be worn, it should have a double sateen back with canvas interlining, and may be high in the throat or made with a step collar like that of the waist.

No kilted Jock goes with more swagger down Princes Street than Johnny Gurkha down the bazaar of Darrapore, particularly in the evening, when he doffs khaki for the mufti suit of his clanthe spotless white shorts, coat of black sateen, little cocked cap and brightly bordered stockingsa mode de rigueur that would be robbed of its final cachet without the black umbrella, tucked well up under the arm.

In the kitchenware one could don black sateen sleevelets to protect one's clean white waist without breaking the department's tenets of fashion.

"Green sateen collar to match the buttons" "And for the wristbands," said Agnes, catching my enthusiasm.

Then there was an antimacassar in purple and magenta sateen, with yellow daffodils making a brave attempt to flourish in unlikely surroundings.

He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen.

" "Our smart victoria was lent by a Rajput friend of Sir Swinton's, and he had also sent us his private secretary as guide and escorta very thin young man in a black sateen coat and gay-flowered waistcoat.