His face was smeared with sandalwood, and he wore a loose-fitting silk shirt through which a dark triangle of chest hair stuck out.

NEWYORKER: The Elephant

Robert Kilroy-Silk, then an MEP, had a bucket of manure poured over his suit, shirt and silk tie as he arrived for a radio interview in Manchester in 2004.

BBC: The public encounters politicians might prefer to forget

F-series trucks are the bedrock of sales, says Mr Pack, soft-spoken and dapper in a monogrammed shirt, silk tie and crocodile-skin shoes.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

He was wearing his yellow shirt, along with a rust-colored jacket, a striped tie of rich burgundy silk, and gray woollen slacks: his best clothes.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden