Bebreeched

The idea of putting pants on waitresses—or half pants, to be mathematically correct—originated with the manager, as a result of the installation of a mural painting showing a number of red-coated, bebreeched ladies participating in a fox hunt.

We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched.

First came the folk dancers from Mr. Walt Disney’s “People and Places” series: the Scots in a blaze of tartans and a braw blare of the pipes; the agile Swedes, the bebreeched and braided Austrians and their robustious Schulpletter;