Donning a resplendent sports jacket in a vivid Saxony gun club check while his pretty little Swedish assistant helped Chan into his light pongee coat, Dr. Svorenssen said, "Let me give you a lift to the hotel, Charlie."

In an early reference to houndstooth, De Pinna, a New York City-based men's and women's high end clothier founded in 1885, included houndstooth checks along with gun club checks and Scotch plaids as part of its 1933 spring men's suits collection.