As much as this will sound offensively conventional, the men were wearing a tremendous amount of tweed. It is not a stereotype but a truth. And there is nothing for it but to record the fact. The men wore tweed and smoked pipes, eccentrics saturated in their particular field of study, hair like bird feathers more often than not. There were a few wives on arms, some of which looked bored. (The wives, not the arms.)
