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"And it's the same with women's clothes on board a yacht; what's really charming are those light garments, uniformly white, cotton or linen or nankeen or drill, which in the sunlight and against the blue of the sea show up with as dazzling a whiteness as a spread sail."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 654 of the Modern Library paperback edition
Who wouldn't?
I would love to wear easy nankeen pantaloons as my working clothes. Seriously.
Nankeen pantaloons? What a great phrase! Added.
"...the officers had abandoned their usual working clothes of easy nankeen pantaloons and light jackets for undress uniform and Hessian boots..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 289