CLOTHING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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1 If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
2 The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it.
3 Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned.
4 He was a plump rosy man of the blond Jewish type, with smart London clothes fitting him like upholstery, and small sidelong eyes which gave him the air of appraising people as if they were bric-a-brac.
5 In the care of such a guardian, it soon became clear to Lily that she was to enjoy only the material advantages of good food and expensive clothing; and, though far from underrating these, she would gladly have exchanged them for what Mrs. Bart had taught her to regard as opportunities.
6 Certainly no one need have confessed such acquiescence in her lot as was revealed in the "useful" colour of Gerty Farish's gown and the subdued lines of her hat: it is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
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