These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.
Apparel Quotes
Clothes make the man.
Legs are staple articles and will never go out of fashion while the world lasts.
Better go to heaven in rags than to hell in embroidery.
Where’s the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
Tis the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
Garter: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her, stockings and desolating the country.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that. (“Martin Chuzzlewit”)
