We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. Cowper.
The dress that shows taste and sentiment is elevating to the home, and is one of the most feminine means of beautifying the world.
Miss Oakey.
A lady of genius will give a genteel air to her whole dress by a well fancied suit of knots, as a judicious writer gives to a whole sentence by a single expression. Gay.
A rich dress is not worth a straw to one who has a poor mind.
Az Zubaidi.
’Tis the mind that makes the body rich. Shakespeare.
I wear what I want to. Clara Barton.
THE ART OF DRESSING—CLARA BARTON’S INDIVIDUALITY
Dress is a sentiment, sentiment of an occasion. Dress is an expression of the attitude of the mind as to propriety, necessary to accomplish results. Like smiles, dress is an expression of the intelligence of the wearer. Dress is an art, one of the highest of the arts. Dress has to do with the form divine and, whether dress be for good or ill, depends on the mind that fashions it. Court dress, then the want of dress, Clara Barton disliked and on one occasion would not conform. She thereby missed the honor of being a guest on a state occasion—proffered her by the world’s greatest queen.