A dress shirt with a starched front.Up above, men wore black clothes and boiled shirts, and women dressed in beautiful gowns....
The maid would bang the gong and for dinner my parents would always dress formally, my father in a boiled shirt and my mother in a evening dress.
He then puts on a boiled shirt and high collar under a white dinner jacket and heads to his meal, which is served at a table set with orchids and silver.