All-around 1926 a fair shorter style, called the 'Eton crop', became common:[21] on her arrival in Tilling (Rye) in E. F. Benson's comedian novel Mapp and Lucia (1931), Lucia described "Quaint" Irene as "a woman without having hat and an Eton crop. She was wearing a fisherman's jersey and knickerbockers". For a few years trite assumptions were bein