They wore black suits , which were slightly greasy , slightly frayed , and even Richard , who counted himself among the sartorially dyslexic , felt there was something odd about the cut of the coats . They were the kind of suits that might have been made by a tailor two hundred years ago who had had a modern suit described to him but had never actually seen one . The lines were wrong , and so were the grace notes .
Они носили черные костюмы, слегка засаленные и слегка потертые, и даже Ричард, причислявший себя к портняжным дислексикам, чувствовал что-то странное в покрое пальто. Это были костюмы, которые мог бы сшить портной двести лет назад, которому описали современный костюм, но который никогда его не видел. Строки были неправильными, как и форшлаги.