The question of footwear at golf is one of considerable difficulty, but
there is a general feeling in favour of shoes. My friend the Tooting Bec
_plusser_ affects a very showy sort of shoe with a wide welt and a sort
of fringe of narrow strips of porpoise hide, which fall over the instep
in a miniature cataract. As regards the rival merits of india rubber
studs on the soles and of nails, I compromise by a judicious mixture of
both. If a waistcoat be worn it should be of the brightest possible
colour. I saw Lord Dunching the other day at Wimbledon Park in a
charming waistcoat. The groundwork was a rich spinach green with discs
of Pompeian red, and the buttons were of brass with his monogram in blue
and white enamel in the centre. As it was a cold day he wore a
mustard-coloured Harris tweed Norfolk jacket and a sealskin cap. Quite a
large crowd followed him, and I heard afterwards that he had raised the
record for the links to 193.