A good-looking, bold woman, with fine, bad eyes, and a determined bearing; dressed ostentatiously in perfect male attire, with shirt-collar turned down over a velvet Lapelled coat, richly worked shirt-front, black hat, French unmentionables, and natty, polished boots with spurs.
"Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
Mary Seacole Commentator: W. H. Russell
Nevertheless, nothing could be more clearly indicated than that the hair of M. Melihac was very yellow, and his short, huge-Lapelled waistcoat white, striped with scarlet.
"The Two Vanrevels"
Booth Tarkington