The man wore a purple suit, a Panama hat over his shiny, slicked- down hair. He walked splay- footed, soundlessly.
The girl wore a green hat and a short skirt and sheer stockings, four- and- a- half inch French heels. She smelled of Midnight Narcissus.
—Raymond Chandler, "Pickup on Noon Street," from The Simple Art of Murder, 1950.