He wore a long-skirted blue coat with buttons very low down at the back, high boots drawn quite straight over the calves of his legs and crinkled round the ankles, and over them he had on a pair of large goloshes.
Vestiva un soprabito turchino a lunghe falde, con i bottoni più in basso del dorso, e sopra agli alti stivali raggrinziti alle caviglie e tirati sui polpacci portava delle grosse calosce.