flannelled

The open field of the Padang is where flannelled fools play cricket in the tropical heat.

Lala was hovering in the air over the strange man like a flannelled angel over a tombstoned crusader.

Singapore has come a long way - in an extremely short time - from the rocking rattan chairs of Raffles Hotel, where flannelled fools sipped their Singapore Slings under palm fans, amid the ghosts of Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling.