Appearance

Aspect, mien, guise, façade, pose, demeanor

QUOTES

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
1937

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweatshirt?
Fran Lebowitz
Metropolitan Life, 1978

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That's why He makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
1856

You can never be too rich or too thin.
Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor

See Also Beauty

History

The Trojan Horse

Battle of Cowpens

Military uniforms

Arts & Science

The Lone Ranger, Superman, and all costumed super-heroes

Hospital uniforms denoting status and task

Movies: The Wizard of Oz, Rear Window

Vogue Magazine, W, and haute couture

Trompe l'oeil paintings

Escher drawings

Literature

Henry James: any book

Shakespeare: many comedies with concealed identities

John T. Molloy: Dress for Success

Aesop: The Vain Jackdaw, The Crow and the Swan, The Man and his Two Mistresses

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