However, the confidence would have wavered under an independent collar and wristbands.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The music "strikes up," the lady of the house throws a comprehensive coup d'oeil over her assembled visitors, and at last pitches upon a tall young man-whom some of you may have met before-with short hair, spectacles, and turned-up wristbands, as if he was about to wash his hands with his coat on.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
In the winter afternoons she would sit knitting for two or three hours-she could do this in the dark, or by firelight-and when I asked if I might not ring for candles to finish stitching my wristbands, she told me to "keep blind man's holiday."
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood