She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair, and her extremely short and rather shabby skirt revealed a pair of uncommonly dainty ankles.
But as Miss Brill wondered, the ermine toque turned, raised her hand as though she'd seen someone else, much nicer, just over there, and pattered away .
Some jewellery, a brooch, and watch-chain, glistened on her close-fitting gown of dark-blue cloth; and she smiled from under a velvet toque ornamented with a large grey feather.
Her fur-trimmed suit was gray—" because with gray you have to wear a lot of paint, " she explained—and a small toque sat rakishly on her head, allowing yellow ripples of hair to wave out in jaunty glory.