Close to 1926 an excellent shorter style, often called the 'Eton crop', turned well-liked:[21] on her arrival in Tilling (Rye) in E. F. Benson's comic novel Mapp and Lucia (1931), Lucia described "Quaint" Irene as "a lady without hat and an Eton crop. She was dressed in a fisherman's jersey and knickerbockers". For many years trite assumptions had