Two young men rent one dress suit and both try to appear at the same party in the same suit. They fight over the trousers until they are destroyed, then flit from room to room, to avoid coming in contact with the guests of the party, and finally escape in a pair of trousers taken from the butler.


Imagine, if you dare, the immaculate cruelty of a single party invitation that promises social ascent yet delivers sartorial hell. Short and Snappy—all seventeen giddy minutes of it—takes that invitation, folds it into a paper airplane, and flings it straight into the chandelier. The resulting shards of crystal and e...

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" Imagine, if you dare, the immaculate cruelty of a single party invitation that promises social ascent yet delivers sartorial hell. Short and Snappy—all seventeen giddy minutes of it—takes that invitation, folds it into a paper airplane, and flings it straight into the chandelier. The resulting shards of crystal and etiquette are still twinkling a century later. Billy Bletcher, squashed in stature but gargantuan in appetite, eyes the rented tux like Gatsby ogling the green light. Across the ve..."
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