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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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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. – CoCo Chanel

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. – William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? – George Bernard Shaw

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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. – Quentin Bell

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