His clothes, of course, were frightful. They had been made for him by a Greek tailor in Lima — in two days. He was young enough, too, to have explained this sartorial deficiency to Jonquil in his otherwise laconic note.
And he is, as he puts it, a sartorial stutterer, dressing in clothes that he doesn't realize are outlandish or incongruous until he sees the way that people look at him.
But for five decades she instead practised, studied and taught nursing, eventually becoming an emeritus professor at Wolverhampton University, all the while nudging her sartorial dreams further into the future.