A Well Placed Ring

Pierre Clementi in Belle du Jour
"The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rings."

ARTICLES OF FAITH.

1. Coats should have nothing of the triangle about them; at the same time, wrinkles behind should be carefully avoided.

2. The collar is a very important point: it should be low behind, and slightly rolled.

3. No license of fashion can allow a man of delicate taste to adopt the posterial luxuriance of a Hottentot.

4. There is safety in a swallow-tail.

5. The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rings.

6. It is permitted to mankind, under certain restrictions, to wear white waistcoats.

7. The trousers must be exceedingly tight across the hips.

Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus. III x: The Dandiacal Body