In Brazzaville, it's common for Sapeurs to rent or borrow clothes from fellow fops or requisition them from friends visiting from Europe.

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Arguably though, traditional British-made films, which have portrayed the British as emotionally retarded fops, amateur gangsters or unemployed depressives, are no more flattering to the country than their glitzier Hollywood counterparts.

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"The Blue Moon Saloon, " my brother Layton and I used to say while we floated in the creek, our noses pointed pompously upward, as if only gentry frequented the establishment, though in retrospect the opposite was more probable: these days, Divide was a town of holdout ranchers, fanatical fishermen, and the occasional Unabomber, not dandy fops with a mind for parlor games.

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