From Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger"
CHAPTER 13
(Of Tilly Masterton)
There was too much character in the face, too much candour. And she wasn’t wearing the uniform of a seductress. She wore a white, rather masculine cut, heavy white silk shirt. It was open at the neck, but it would button up to a narrow military collar. The shirt had long wide sleeves gathered at the wrists. The girl’s nails were unpainted and her only piece of jewellry was a gold ring on her engagement finder (true or false?). She wore a very wide black stitched leather belt with double brass buckles. it rose at the back to give some of the support of a racing driver’s corset belt. Her short skit was charcoal-grey and pleated. her shoes were expensive-looking black sandals which would be comfortable and cool for driving. The only touch of colour was the pink handkerchief which she had taken off her head and now held by her side with the white goggles. It all looked very attractive. but the get-up reminded Bond more of an equipment that an young girl’s dress. There was something faintly mannish and open-air about the whole of her behaviour and appearance. She might, thought Bond, be a member of the English women’s skit team, or spend a lot of her time in England hunting and show-jumping.
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