Word: tweediest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...
...England he had outtweeded the tweediest Britons...