She looked tall and her hair was the color of a brush fire seen through a dust cloud. On it, at the ultimate rakish angle, she wore a black velvet double- pointed beret with two artificial butterflies made of polka- dotted feathers and fastened on with tall silver pins. Her dress was burgundy- red wool and the blue fox draped over one shoulder was at least two feet wide. Her eyes were large, smoke- blue, and looked bored.
—Raymond Chandler, "The King in Yellow," from his collected short stories, The Simple Art of Murder, 1950.