English (British?) culture question

[tysolna]

I give up. I can't find anything via google or wikipedia since I don't know the name or term.
I've seen people walk around London, who were mostly around fifthy or sixty years old or older, wearing black clothes with white or silvery sparkly buttons sewn all over. I don't know who they are and I don't know how to find out and it's driving me nuts. Help?

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[cake-o-rama.livejournal.com]

I can't help you personally, but do are you on the little details community here on lj? (writer's assistance when google doesn't help) If not, well, you should be, but I'll post for you..

...because now I gotta know.

[tysolna]

I used to be on that community until it overflooded my friends list, but thank you for reminding me about it, I might dip into it now and again. :)

[neddy-l.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearly_Queen

[tysolna]

THANK you! :-D Yes, that's it!

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

In the time it took me to open this someone has already answered.

They are indeed cheeky cockney eel munching pearly kings and queens ;)

[tysolna]

I was close; I did include "cockney" in my searches, but still didn't get the results. Thank you for helping!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I know! They're Cockneys, specifically the Pearly Kings and Queens.

[tysolna]

Thanks!
I try to learn something new every day. :)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

One of my friends sometimes appears as a Pearly Queen for charity fundraising purposes.

[tysolna]

Isn't that outfit very hard to make? Beautiful, though!