Sebastian entered — dove-grey flannel, white crepe-de-Chine shirt, a Charvet…

Sebastian entered — dove-grey flannel, white crepe-de-Chine shirt, a Charvet tie, my tie as it happened, a pattern of postage stamps.

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Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945), p.31

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