ABSTRACT
In 1936 P.G. Wodehouse published a book called Young Men in Spats, which featured a young man about town named Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. Critics quibbled. Spats had been out of fashion for at least a decade. Wodehouse was clinging to the past, they said. In 1974, Wodehouse published Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, which featured a young man about town named Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. Bertie still wore spats.
