Overcoats: How many? And which?

The narrator of Evelyn Waugh's unfinished novel Work Suspended muses with his lunch companion on how many coats a gentleman needs. Four, they decide, is too many: a man could manage with three.

But which three?


Mr Waugh models one of his choices

Paternity suits

The arrival of Bumwad Minor has imposed a drastic change on standards of dress in the Bumwad household. Under threat of regurgitation, the look for AW10-11 is 'machine washable'. Out goes the cashmere, silk and worsted, and in comes the lambswool, cotton and corduroy. The Bumwad paternity suit is a pair of baggy and well-worn cords, a fraying shirt and a merino tank-top.


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