Usage examples (3)

• Tauz's hopsack blazer (£980); a look from Thom Browne's spring/summer 2011 collection; the Lionel Henderson black seer suit (£650) from Aquascutum's London collection.
• I cut the collar off a pink hopsack suit, shortened the sleeves, bought three huge buttons and sewed them on the jacket.
• John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them...