clothes

• “Dressed as I was in the mollah bashi’s clothes, my first care was to make such alterations in them that they should not hold me up to suspicion, and this I did for a trifling expense at an old clothes’ shop, although, at the same time, I took care not to part with any of the valuable articles which had fallen into my possession.”

  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

• “There was a lawn tennis court and eleven indoor staff, there was fishing and shooting, and adventures for the children, with tree houses and charades; a family orchestra and dressing up in clothes from the huge dressing-up cupboard on wet days.”

  Mrs. Miniver

• “As I said, all the knowledge I had about what message to give with the clothes is here invalid.”

  Dressing up

• “Another interesting thing I see in the paintings besides the clothes is the women's figures.”

  18th and 19th Century Country Women

• “While others label clothes for heavier women "plus sizes," she dubs them "real sizes.”

  Newsweek: Armanis Of Aisle 7

• “The chief god with white hair and wonderful clothes -- It is what they call clothes; under it they are as you and me, only the color is different -- the chief god will give many bells to any folk who can show him the way to Quinsai.”

  1492,

• “When I am drying my clothes is my most comfortable moment!”

  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

• “Upon those views, I began to consider about putting the few rags I had, which I called clothes, into some order.”

  Robinson Crusoe

• “Upon these views I began to consider about putting the few rags I had, which I called clothes, into some order; I had worn out all the waistcoats I had, and my business was now to try if I could not make jackets out of the great watch-coats which I had by me, and with such other materials as I had; so I set to work, tailoring, or rather, indeed, botching, for I made most piteous work of it.”

  Robinson Crusoe

• “Upon these views, I began to consider about putting the few rags I had, which I called clothes, into some order: I had worn out all the waistcoats I had, and my business was now to try if I could not make jackets out of the great watch-coats that I had by me, and with such other materials as I had; so I set to work a tailoring, or rather, indeed; a botching, for I made most piteous work of it.”

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes

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