André François, who worked for both French and British papers, was a master of the rapidly sketched situation; so was "Anton" of Punch (a man and a woman jointly using the name), who kept up the tradition of satire through clothes, being particularly good at pseudo-Edwardian nattiness.
The rather dated, Dave Brubeck nattiness of his attire was spoiled only by the grin of his half-zipped trouser fly.
Frequently, driven from the table in his hotel room by the jittery, henlike cluckings of Boyd, he wraps a half-finished chop in a florid handkerchief and tucks it in the pocket of his jacket, from which it protrudes, its nattiness not at all impaired by the fact that it conceals a greasy piece of meat.
They shared a general disregard for nattiness, an informal mode of speech, an obsession with detail, an irrepressible absent-mindedness.
Is it not stylish?" The outfit would have won few design awards, but the beige jacket and trousers, with brown pockets and shoulder pads, had a certain utilitarian nattiness about it.
He wore bow ties at 3, displaying a nattiness that prompted his campmates to dub him Mr. GQ.
Of all the critiques one might make of the performance Mr. Gore and his opponent, Gov. George W. Bush, gave on Tuesday in the first presidential debate -- overuse of the terms "lockbox" and "fuzzy math," for example -- nattiness isn't one of them.
White bucks and a Panama hat boost the nattiness quotient, Mr. Breen said, adding, "but I think it's a little much, unless I were going to an afternoon cocktail party on the Cape".
Fans, turning the consummate spectator sport into a participatory one, offered opinions of all kinds — about which way the next putt would break, the nattiness of a golfer's attire or anything else that might draw a laugh.
But when Armin Meiwes stepped into a courtroom in this central German city the other day, legal binders tucked under his arm, there was no denying his nattiness.
The phenomenon is not even uniquely American, a fact made clear by the careers of the Kray twins, Reggie and Ronald, two brutal Cockney mobsters whose extortion and murder sprees rarely got as much ink in their native England as did the nattiness of their bespoke Savile Row clothes.
