It is pale blue, trimmed with chiffon of the same color.
They must be kept trimmed in or clipped, especially in their earlier stages; trimming with the knife is much to be preferred to clipping with shears.
Evidently just before coming to the dinner he had had his hair and whiskers trimmed, which changed his appearance for the worse.
English mayors' and civic officials' robes are frequently trimmed with this fur in lieu of sable.
The rest of the costume is composed of the tumbun or shalvar, short skirts of great width, held by a running stringthe outer one being usually of silk, velvet, or Kashmir shawl, often trimmed with gold lace, or, among the poor, of loud-patterned chintz or print.
