Alison Lurie - The language of clothes (1981)

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Conspicuous consumption in dress still survives in two locations: the private lives of the urban rich and the public lives of the urban poor.

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Clothes which make a woman's life difficult and handicap her in competition with men are always felt to be sexually attractive

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Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

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