“What comes so expensive when one has to go to work straight on, say
for the first six months of the year, is the having to keep up the
same standard of respectability in the ‘between season’ time as at
other times. The holidays always come between the seasons at school
or college, and it does not matter much what one wears. But at the
office by April I felt that I had simply ‘nothing to wear,’ and yet I
hardly knew what to buy, as it was too early to get summer things. If
one once got into the way of getting inter-season clothes as well, the
expenditure would be enormous.”