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Our fondness for clothes and our interest in them dwindle when we set them on the footing of covering the body alone, for they are in fact more than that: they are one of the manifestations of personality, and of the fluctuations of the psyche. Thomas Carlyle wrote of clothes, saying: A man's drift toward tailoring, or toward legislation, is no mere accident, but an obscure leaning of soul and mind. This writer set fashion on one level with legislation.
Beside that, fashion represents the nature of the age, and the leaning of the people that lived in that stretch of time; even the weave of the cloth, and the kind of garment, show forth the material traits of the age. Dress is the most eloquent tongue to speak of the time that embraced it.
There is a class of people who hate the fashions of the nineteenth century, with all their lines and pleats and lacing of the waist. And fashion moves
the past — so our congratulations on this new branch in the noble Jundi family tree; may the eyes of his honorable parents be gladdened by him.
Modern fashion moves in a new direction, in the twentieth century, to take its place among the rest of the ages.
Here is a museum, if the name is right, in which you