Yarrow brushed the satin lapels of his dinner jacket and adjusted his bow tie, pleased that he had learned how to tie it at university. Trevor Bullock, he knew, would also be in dinner jacket and bow tie, but several of the other members at the cricket club would be wearing an ordinary suit and tie. Whilst the annual ball was officially a black tie event with dinner jacket and bow tie for the men and long evening gown for the ladies, as many of the members could not afford such luxuries, a more relaxed approach to dress had been adopted. Before the war, dinner jacket and evening dress had been de rigeur, mandatory, but this had been relaxed during the war and had never been reinstated.
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