Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
The white ones are modern machine-made lace. If they become off-white it will be down to careless cleaning. Older ones such as mine were made from Spanish silk which has a natural off-white colour.

And there would be no way to bleach the silk either, so I would think one would have to be careful. I do like the look of the white lace, but I wanted to be sure it worked for black tie attire.

I'm still interested in that MacKinnon of Dunakin quote by MacMillan of Rathdown. It says the jabot can be worn with the formal argyle.

Perhaps it is taboo to do so now, however, it is interesting to me that it was at one time acceptable.