toga
Artefact
Classical garment adopted by Bristolian grandees for lunch. Rome, machine-washable.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
Connections
Where they turn up
- Petites Bottes worn at (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…There was stirred, in the several breasts of the several toga-clad gentlemen accouched in the Roman mode around the low table laden with the fruits and viandes of that establishment’s taster menu, a certain warmth of feeling at the notion of a young lady who, uniting in her person easiness on the observing eye with the possession of a substantial fortune, should exercise such tact and delicacy as to throw…