#rs surtees

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The Victoria & Albert Museum is determined to make me read the novels of R.S. Surtees, I think. Surtees is quoted by the V&A to describe men's apparel for multiple items in their clothing and textiles collection. He was known as a comic writer, and apparently a very clothing-focused writer?? e.g. the fox head waistcoat of his character Mr. Jawleyford.

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from Mr. Facey Romford’s Hounds, by Robert Smith Surtees; originally published by Bradbury and Evans (1865)

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No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat. (Robert Smith Surtees)