CLOTHES

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.  

Henry David Thoreau

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations

Many a woman who thinks she has purchased a dress for a ridiculous price has actually bought it for an absurd figure.

Traditional.