Rus In Urbe

O Henry named a good short story with the term but I understand that an epigrammatist named Martial coined the phrase rus in urbe early in the first century AD. It means country in the city of course, and when used to describe a man's dress refers to the wearing of country clothing in an urban area, as one might do on a Saturday when accompanying the spouse for some form of shopping where a man might be called on to carry small pieces of furniture or something of that ilk.

Brown cotton moleskin trousers with turnups, a yellow tattersall patterned shirt, my green Belseta waistcoat and a tweed cap accompanied (out of the picture) by a pair of Wolverine's cordovan boots.