A couple of teddy boys are stopped by a policeman as they make their midnight way unsteadily along the High Street. He looks them up and down, and his gaze settles on their winklepicker shoes.
'Do your toes reach the end of those shoes?' he enquires ponderously.
The more inebriated youth regards him glassily, and then grins as a thought strikes him.
'Does your head reach the top of your helmet, Constable?'
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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