Re: Neat? No?


Subject: Re: Neat? No?
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 09:24:47 GMT


I have a feeling that other members can answer better than I can (not being
someone who really pays that much attention to clothes), but I think wing
tips are a certain type of leather shoe.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:
>
> Well, no, Cecilia. Master Schemmel has contracted that
> terrible obsessive/compulsive condition, salingeroid ventriloquism
> (where the writer has abandoned the use of his own voice for that
> of another) - a condition I've warned members about on numerous
> previous occasions.
>
> However.
>
> The hero of the story is described as wearing 'wing tips'.
> This is an item of clothing unknown as such to me, a Brit.
> Nonetheless, it appears intriguingly in various American TV
> sitcoms - notably my farandaway, alltime, knockout favourite,
> Frasier. It's driving me cuckoo.
>
> What, in the name of Jesus, are wing tips?
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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