Monday, July 12, 2004
Clothes
Dennis Mangan quotes from an article by Taki Theodoracopulos entitled Sloppy Clothes, Shabby Manners.
There is something to be said on the other side, and Thoreau says it best in the first chapter of Walden, from which the following excerpts come:
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There is something to be said on the other side, and Thoreau says it best in the first chapter of Walden, from which the following excerpts come:
- Only they who go to soirees and legislative balls must have new coats, coats to change as often as the man changes in them.
- I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
Within a week I have had made a pair of corduroy pants, which cost when done $1.60. They are of that peculiar clay-color, reflecting the light from portions of their surface. They have this advantage, that, being very strong, they will look about as well three months hence as now -- or, as ill, some would say. Most of my friends are disturbed by my wearing them.Taki says, "At the G8 summit on Sea Island, Ga., the only man who dressed properly was -- dare I say it? -- the president of France." In other words, the most duplicitous scoundrel there was also the most nattily dressed.
