under-starched

Updated: May 16, 2025

He wears a black broadcloth coat, a double-breasted garment, with similar colored waistcoat and trousers, a turn-down collar, a shirt of many plaits which is under-starched and over-wrinkled but always clean, large cuffs very much frayed, a narrow black or white tie, and low shoes with white cotton stockings.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Colonel Carter of Cartersville