"The ladies of the night," he said, "would parade up and down the street".
You go to the town hall in Paris to meet the mayor, get a medal and parade up and down.
You can parade up and down stark naked and pretend it's very fine silk and fool a lot of people, but eventually word will get around.
You might also add the Victoria's Secret shows, in which models including Miranda Kerr and Adriana Lima parade up and down in the brand's underwear.
"I remember thinking as I watched these people parade up to kiss the corpse that there was no way I could approach Maria St. Just even in death," McCann says.
And no utilitarian really cares if you silently take your sacrificial generosity to the grave, or parade up and down wearing a self-made halo and a T-shirt inscribed "Saint".
There are plenty of Turkish women who appear scantily clad in the local gossip magazines, and there are those who parade up and down Istanbul's ultra-smart Abdi Ipekci Street, buying fashion labels.
Amin, who was partly reared by British colonial troops, loved the Scots, and, when he became President, he established bonny rituals in which members of his Army would parade up and down in kilts and tartan.
