\Silk"-stock`ing\, a.
Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn
chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly
dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men,
often by way of reproach.
      [They] will find their levees crowded with
      silk-stocking gentry, but no yeomanry; an army of
      officers without soldiers.               --Jefferson.