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... she was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had got them they took one in hand and gave one no peace till they had been everywhere and been seen by everybody. You didn't take your clothes to parties; they took you. It was quite a mistake to think that a woman ... wore out her clothes; it was the clothes that wore out the woman ... dragging her about at all hours of the day and night.
from The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
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