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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relat

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

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The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle

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Jeans represent democracy in fashion. – Giorgio Armani

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A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb

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A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. – Elizabeth Wilson

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