A wide rounded cloth tailor dress form wears an absurdly small blue jacket, with a wooden base and loose brass button on muted ochre and pale-blue ground.

Original artwork, not a still

Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (short story)

P.G. Wodehouse

The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotton to say “When!”

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The man is described as though someone poured him into clothes and failed to stop in time. That impossible pouring comparison makes their tight fit comic. This separately retained version gives no real person’s measurements or authenticated scene.

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