In the Dakotas the same year all the fairies wore pumpkin-flower neckties, yellow four-in-hands and yellow ascots.
"Rootabaga Stories"
Carl Sandburg
Seeing her at Lord Altringham's table, with the ascots and the old Duchess of Dunes, the interested spectators could not but regard the dinner as confirming the rumour of her marriage.
"The Glimpses of the Moon"
Edith Wharton