MrsKen33
Our head teacher once sent a letter out asking for ‘black women’s tights’ and ‘ white men’s shirts’, for some project we were doing.
Actually, until we all became so concious of not fueling racism anyone could have been forgiven for asking for black women's tights or white men's shirts!
That was how we described these items in my childhood, along with phrases such as flesh-coloured stockings (which usually meant light tan, unless it was ballet tights that were meant) in a shade that no so-called "white woman's" legs are naturally) a black gentleman's umbrella, and so on.
I am not saying that they are grammatically perfect phrases, but no-one would have found them offensive in the 1950s.