ill-fitting

On the threshold of the folding doors that divided bedroom and sitting-room, a well-built man stood in ill-fitting broadcloth, and bowed to us until his bullet head presented an unbroken disk of short red hair.

He wore the hat well down over his eyes, his dark hair curled low on the nape of his neck; in the ill-fitting brown clothes there were sturdy limbs; a slight stoop brought out a satisfactory breadth of shoulders.

It became a sort of quarry for nuts and screws and wheels, bars and spokes, chain-links and the like; a mine of ill-fitting "parts" to replace the defects of machines still current.

In children, ill-fitting shoes are an important source of minor blisters and discomfort to worrying deformities and problems with gait and posture.

SCHOOLDAYS were billed as the happiest of our lives, so what an angrily avoidable upset that two million children in England alone are sent to lessons in ill-fitting, frayed, dirty and inappropriate uniforms.

Two million children in England have been sent to school in dirty, ill-fitting or incorrect uniform, a children's charity has said.

Getting tangled in the long legs of ill-fitting costumes is a key reason; costume masks can also be part of the problem.

And it said the "shameful situation" means residents can struggle to eat due to infections and pain caused by old, ill-fitting false teeth.

The ill-fitting manhole covers dotting Muscat - small alleys, single-lane service roads and some main roads -- are a distraction I can't ignore.