
Brief, sleeveless garments made of silk, usually short. Definitely worn only
by slave girls, though not all slave girls wore silks. The status of slave
girls is often denoted by the color of her silks (though she may not
actually be wearing the silks). For example, a girl may be wearing the silks
of a Slaver (blue and yellow in color) and depending on her experience, is
called 'white silk' or 'red silk'. The silk colors (especially red and/or
white seemed to used as labels as much as actual colors of their garments)
White: denotes a virgin (though often the girl doesn't actually wear white silks, if she is a virgin, she is said to be 'white silk')
Yellow: worn by paga slaves..girls who serve paga in the taverns and can be bought for the price of a cup of paga.
Red:a slave who is not a virgin (though again, the girl doesn't actually wear red silks all the time, if she is a slave who is not a virgin, she is red silk)
Gray:state/city owned slaves (say a girl had a Master who owed taxes to the city, but was unable to pay them...often, the city would claim the slaves instead. These girls were often rented out to citizens to earn their keep)
Various: The silks came in many styles and colors...striped, tunic-styles or
halters...dancing silks, etc etc...
"I noted her throat was encircled by a collar of gray metal. I supposed it
indicated that she was a state slave of Tharna." " 'Are you white silk?' I asked.
'I am virgin,' she said.
'Then you are white silk.' I said." ""She trembled. I kissed her upon the lips. Her body, that of a white-silk
girl, fresh to the collar, was terribly frightened." " 'To be sure,' I said, '"white" in the context of "white-silk girl" lends
less to suggest purity and innocence to the Gorean than ignorance, naivety,
and a lack of experience. One expects a red-silk girl, for example, to not
only be able to find her way about the furs, but, subject to the whip,
owned and dominated, perhaps chained, to prove herself a sensuous treasure
within them." " The buyers were also informed that I was 'glana' or virgin. The correlated
term is 'metaglana' used to designate the state to which the glana state
looks forward, or that which it is regarded as anticipating. Though the word
was not used of me I was also 'profalarina' which term designates the state
preceding, and anticipating that of 'falarina' or the state Goreans seem to
think of as that of being a full woman, or, at least, as those of Earth
might think of it, one who certainly is no longer a virgin. In both terms,
'glana' and 'profalarina' incidentally, it seems that the states they
designate are regarded as immature or transitory, state to be succeeded by
more fully developed, superior states, those of 'metaglana' or 'falarina.'
Among slaves, not free women, these things are sometimes spoken of along the
lines as to whether or not the girl has been 'opened' for the uses of men.
Other common terms, used generally of slaves, are 'white silk' and 'red silk'
for girls who have not yet been opened, or have been opened, for the uses of
men, respectively." "Similarly, the expression, 'red-silk,' in Gorean, tends to be used as a
category in slaving, and also, outside of the slaving context, as an
expression in vulgar discourse, indicating that the woman is no longer a
virgin, or, as the Goreans say, at least vulgarly of slaves, that her body
has been opened by men. Its contrasting term is 'white-silk,' usually used
of slaves who are still virgins, or equivalently, slaves whose bodies have
not yet been opened by men. Needless to say, slaves seldom spend a great
deal of time in the 'white-silk' category. It is common not to dally in
initiating a slave into the realities of her condition." "I looked about myself. There were men at the tables, the girls, in slave
bells, and yellow silk, serving them. The proprietor had now returned behind
the counter, as was polishing paga goblets." "She came through the kitchen door, in the tiny slip of diaphanous yellow
silk alotted to paga slaves, bells locked on her left ankle." "The other girls, the common slaves, like Tendite, went with the price of a
cup of paga." "I missed in the crowd, the presence of slave girls, common in other cities,
usually lovely girls clad only in the brief, diagonally striped livery of
Gor, a sleeveless, briefly skirted garment terminating some inches above the
knee, a garment that contrasts violently with the heavy, cumbersome Robes of
Concealment worn by free women." "...on the shoulder or off the shoulder, with high necklines or plunging
necklines, in open or closed garments, tightly or flowingly, and in various
lengths...in halters and G-strings, or mere G-strings...in strips wound
about her body...in brief tunics...wraparound tunics...or with a disrobing
loop...at the left shoulder." "He nodded to the girl. To the music she unhooked her slave halter of yellow
silk and, as though contemptuously, discarded it...." "She wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the
northern cities of Gor, the livery was yellow and split to the cord that
served as her belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow
enameled over steel." "Low on her hips she wore, on a belt of rolled cloth, yellow dancing silk,
in Turian drape, the thighs were bare, the front right corner of the skirt
thrust behind her to the left, the back left lower corner of the skirt
thrust into the rolled belt at her right hip. She was barefoot; there were
golden bangles, many of them, on her ankles, more on her left ankle. She
wore a yellow-silk halter, hooked high, to accentuate the line of her beauty.
She wore a gold, locked collar, and, looped about her neck, many light
chains and pendants; on her wrists were many bracelets; on her upper arms,
both left and right, were armlets, tight, there being again more on the left
arm. She shook her head, her hair was loose." "From one side a slave girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous,
trousered chalwar, gathered at the ankle, its tight, red-silk vest, with
bare midriff, fled to him, with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing
the black wine. She was veiled. She knelt, replenishing the drink. Beneath
her veil, I saw the metal of her collar."
Outlaw of Gor, page 102
Explorers of Gor, page 172
Hunters of Gor, page 95
Savages of Gor, page 206
Dancer of Gor, page 128
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 472
Hunters of Gor, page 55
Hunters of Gor, page 56
Hunters of Gor, page 55
Outlaw of Gor, page 66
Dancer of Gor, page 225
Tribesmen of Gor, page 104
Assassin of Gor, page 7
Tribesmen of Gor, page 87
Tribesmen of Gor, page 88
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