George Orwell’s gardening garb | Letters

I’ve not said that I will make George Orwell look ragged or scruffy in the statue I am making of him to go outside the BBC (Letters, 11 August). I suggested he wore potting-shed clothes. In the mid 20th century, an employed gardener might habitually have worked in a tweed jacket, a tie, baggy trousers and a comfortable pullover. So he’d have dressed much like his master except with a little less crease in his trousers and a blunter edge to his lapel. This is just how Orwell looks in