It was hard-wired into him as a descendent of generations of weavers, who was raised among weavers in Bohain-en-Vermandois, which in the 1880's and 90's was a center of production of fancy silks for the Parisian fashion houses.

I'm doing my best to look revoltingly respectable in all these fancy silks!

Unlike lowly merchants, artisans were allowed by law to wear fancy silks, ride on horseback, and ride in carriages.

Or that fancy silk striped tie?

The clothing was a pleasant surprise-well-made and good quality, practical clothing rather than the fancy silks the Bard had half feared The throne room caught him as much by surprise as it had the previous day.

But the appeal of kabinett is that it is more like linen than fancy silk.

But now and then I wear the fancier silks which people like in these southern climes where I now reside.

Jamal is dressed in fancy silks, destined to be the playmate of a Saudi prince.