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the white mess jacket✦︎

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Bertie's white mess jacket with brass buttons, bought at Cannes, which Jeeves disapproves of, leaves unpacked and finally scorches with the iron.

In each book 2 books
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    Bertie's white mess jacket with brass buttons, bought at Cannes, which Jeeves disapproves of, leaves unpacked and finally scorches with the iron.
  • In The Mating Season
    White dinner jackets, another past point of difference between Bertie and Jeeves.

Connections

dealings

Scenes it is in

  1. Bertie tells Jeeves to push Gussie's romance along, then clashes with him over the white mess jacket from Cannes and insists he will wear it to Pongo Twistleton's party.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as a white object
  2. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room, as the good old j.

Talked about, but not there

Right Ho, Jeeves 10 scenes
  1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1, as that white mess jacket
  2. Bertie comes home to find Jeeves in the sitting-room with Gussie Fink-Nottle dressed as Mephistopheles.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room, as the mess jacket
  3. Jeeves advises going to Brinkley, they spar again over Bertie's mess jacket, and Bertie wires his aunt to expect him in a fortnight because of Pongo's party.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as that mess jacket
  4. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat, as the mess jacket
  5. Aunt Dahlia explains that Tuppy belittled Angela's shark, says she wants Jeeves on the case, and begs Bertie in vain not to try a plan of his own.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court, as the mess jacket
  6. Still smarting at Tuppy crediting Jeeves with his scheme, Bertie restores his spirits in the bath playing with a toy duck.Chapter 9, the bathroom, as mess jackets
  7. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as my white mess jacket with the brass buttons
  8. On the lawn Bertie finds a groaning Gussie, and Jeeves explains that Gussie lost his nerve and lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley, as that mess jacket
  9. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as that white mess jacket with the brass buttons
  10. Jeeves explains that his fire-bell scheme united everyone in dislike of Bertie and then in amusement at his pointless ride, brings him an omelette, and confesses to having burnt his mess jacket, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 23, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as mess jacket
The Mating Season 1 scene
  1. Back in his room, Bertie hears from Gussie that his love for Corky died up the tree, tells him Madeline has been squared, and sees him dash off to Wimbledon just before Esmond Haddock comes in.Chapters 24–25, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as white dinner jackets