concept
sarpinka
also: сарпинка
A cheap, lightweight cotton print fabric, often striped or speckled, associated with humble dress; its substitution for a prized red lining supplies the story's cruelest small joke.
Reading notes
- A Heroine of a Lady §15 sarpinka
A cheap, lightweight cotton print fabric, often striped or speckled; its substitution for the colonel's prized red lining is the story's cruelest small joke.
- In Autumn §4 sarpinka trousers
A cheap, lightweight cotton print fabric, often striped or speckled, associated with humble dress -- an incongruous detail on a man whose manner still marks him as once genteel.