If you see a workman wearing a really good suit of clothes you may safely conclude that he is either leading an unnatural life-that is, he is not married-or that he has obtained it from a tallyman on the hire system and has not yet paid for it-or that it is someone else's cast-off suit that he has bought second-hand or had given to him by some charitable person.
"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"
Robert Tressell