Describe Mr. Jarvis Lorry's physical appearance, including dress.

Mr.Jarvis Lorry is introduced in ch.1v,Book-1 of the novel
'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens.He is a man in his mid-fifties,very
refined,very sensitive and very responsible to his duties.His frequent utterences of the
words'I am a businessman' is simply a paradox because whatever he does from the
beginning to the end of the novel is not just 'business' activities.In truth he is the '
Guardian Angel' to the Manetts and Darney,and a helping hand to Carton and others.But in
all activities, his dress and appearencehas played a very crucial role which ultimately
helps shaping his inimitable character.

When we first meet
him he is presented as a very orderly and methodical personality.In the words of the
author-----"Very orderly and Methodical he looked,with a hand on each knee,and a loud
watch ticking---ticking a sonorous sermon under his flaped waistcoat,as though it pitted
its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire.He had a
good leg,and was a little vain of it,for his brown stokings fitted sleek and close ,and
were of a fine texture :his shoes and buckles,too,though plain,were trim.He wore an odd
little sleep crisp flaxen wig setting very close to his head; which wig ,it is to be
presumed ,was made of hair, but which looked for more as though it were spun from
filaments of silk or glass.His linen,though not of a fineness in accordance with his
stockings,was white as the tops of the waves that broke upon the neighbouring beach, or
the speaks of sail that glinted in the sunlight far at
sea.''

Again, his appearence is narrated like---" A face
habitually suppressed and quieted ,was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair
of moist brought eyes ,that it must have cost their owner,in years goneby, some pains to
drill to the composed and reserved expression of Tellson's Bank.He had a healthy colour
in his cheeks ,and his face ,though lined,bore few tracts of anxiety.But perhaps the
confidential bechelor clerks at Tellson's Banks were principally occupied with the cares
of other people ; and perhaps second -hand cares,like second- hand clothes,came easily
off and on."

Both these paragraphs are suggestive to the
habitual orderliness and little vanity in Mr.Lorry's dress and appearence.His was a
cleanly shaved determined face capacity to evoke confidence and reliability to each and
every person who encountered him.His brown suit reveals the maturity and wisdom of his
personality.

Both his dress and appearence are well
balanced and significantly relevant to his role in the novel.