Dining out

In those days one would dress for dinner in the appropriate attire, nowadays people wear the most ghastly and inappropriate things, old beefies Indian head dress springs to mind. The major, for a while,adopted a pair of silk pyjamas and pointed shoes with bells on the end which he insisited on wearing to dinners and such affairs. Apart from the infernal ringing when he walked, he could not remain seated at the table for very long as he would just slide off the chairs due to the silk, a quick ''frrrrtt'' followed by a thud and the tinkling of small bells, the bloody fool...