To wear a pocket watch with a waistcoat, first ensure that your waistcoat has a small pocket specifically designed for the watch, typically located on the right side. Attach the watch to a chain, which can then be threaded through the buttonhole of the waistcoat or clipped to the pocket itself. The watch should be positioned so that it is easily accessible, allowing you to check the time without difficulty. For a polished look, ensure the chain is neatly arranged and the watch is properly secured.
In the book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the White Rabbit has his watch in his waistcoat pocket....but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
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Alice was surprised that the Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, and that it had a waiscoat pocket to take a watch out of....but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat- pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
It's a watch that is made to be carried in a pocket. Pocket watches generally have an attached chain so that it can be secured to a waistcoat, lapel, or belt loop and it helps prevent it from being dropped.
The sentence "the rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket" is an example of personification. This is because it attributes human characteristics—such as wearing clothing and carrying a watch—to a rabbit, which is an animal. Hyperbole, on the other hand, involves exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
An Albert chain is a chain used to make easier access to a pocket watch in the watchpocket of a waistcoat.
The Rabbit's three human characteristics which first attract Alice's attention are his ability to speak, that he has a pocket watch and that he has a waistcoat pocket to keep it in.
Apparently he carried a pocket watch, no wristwatch.
In Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when Alice first sees the White Rabbit she isn't terribly surprised when she hears it speak but, "when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this." But she is very startled when he takes a watch out of his waistcoat (vest) pocket because "she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it."
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