tweed-and-waterproof

Updated: May 18, 2025

As a solicitation of the eye on definite grounds these visitors too constituted a successful plastic fact; and even the most superficial observer would have marked them as products of an insular neighbourhood, representatives of that tweed-and-waterproof class with which, on the recurrent occasions when the English turn out for a holiday Christmas and Easter, Whitsuntide and the autumn Paris besprinkles itself at a night's notice.

Henry James - The Tragic Muse