The clip-clop of horses' hooves today may evoke flowing silk dresses and frock coats, carriages and a genteel way of life that has disappeared.
Lastly, this handsome, light-skinned, and rust-haired rake, dressed in a frock-coat and carrying a gold-tipped cane, appealed to women.
The ' easterner ' versus ' westerner ' debates, the ' frocks ' versus the ' brass hats ', the polarities drawn more clearly after the war than they ever were during it, provided him with protection.
The issue cannot be put on and off like a party frock that one takes out of the wardrobe on high days and holidays.
He put on his frock-coat and silk hat, and took his overcoat over his arm, and together they walked downstairs into safety.
There were hundreds of them: carpets, curtains, kettles, furniture, frocks and every kind of thing that the ordinary consumer buys.
Moreover, the height of these fires is such that anyone wearing a dressing-gown or a frock is liable to catch it against the fire.
He told me that some 60 years ago, when he was first a surgeon, surgeons used to operate in old frock coats.
