Word: scarlets
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...pale colors was the brilliance of the men's court dress. Officials and officers wore scarlet coats, heavily embroidered with gold, and black trousers with a gold stripe on each side. Others, of the Royal Guard, wore gold helmets with high crests of white plumes. Still others were in black satin knee breeches and embroidered black coats...
Pomp. "At 9:30, exactly on time, as always, the orchestra struck up God Save the King. As we all rose to our feet the royal procession entered, preceded by two Indians in scarlet coats and black and gold striped turbans, and officers walking backward, their swords held before them...
Generally acclaimed as the most gorgeous male present (not excepting even George V who wore the scarlet coat of a mere Colonel of the Grenadier Guards) was the Abyssinian representative, black as the ten of clubs. Strutting in a white and gold embroidered jacket and trousers. His Excellency surmounted this with a voluminous black cape, worked all over with dazzling gold...
...Teacher Myrtle Pierson, the little girls in white and the little boys in black walked into the Vatican, past towering papal guardsmen in medieval armor. Conducted by scarlet ushers into the audience chamber of the Supreme Pontiff, they were arranged in a neat, kneeling row, faces upturned, eyes sparkling with interest...
With flunkeys in scarlet posted at portals blossoming with hydrangea, the annual Royal Academy exhibition opened last week in London's Burlington House. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel were first to arrive, followed by hordes of British socialites. The best-dressed gentlemen and worst-dressed ladies in the world gathered in the galleries, talked very loudly, paid but scant attention to the pictures. Less notable people, among whom was a bland Chinaman with a topper and a green orchid, found a few exhibits to interest them...