Imitations

Angela Lyne’s smartness was individual; she was plainly not one of those who scrambled to buy the latest gadget in the few breathless weeks between its first appearance and the inundation of the cheap markets of the world with its imitations; her person was a record and criticisms of succeeding fashions, written as it were, year after year, in one clear and characteristic fist.

Evelyn Waugh, ‘Put Out More Flags’,  Chapman and Hall, 1941