
“He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.”
Haruki Murakami
more infosource: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (New York: Vintage, 2007), 192.
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category: clothes, joy, style, women
medium: Fiction
“I’m not somebody who likes to possess. I’m not the person who has six hundred suits. I want to have two suits. Actually, I want to have one suit, and I replace it.”
Tomas Maier
more infosource: “Just Have Less: Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier,” by John Colapinto, The New Yorker, January 3, 2011, 34.
category: clothes, fashion, materialism, possession, stuff, suit
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“I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet still it manages to amaze me. It’s as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge, saying, ‘Fuck this. I’m going to Los Angeles.'”
David Sedaris
more infosource: “Standing By,” The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, 33–35.
category: America, clothes, fashion, travel
medium: nonfiction
“One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. Physical shedding to begin with, which then mysteriously spreads into other fields. Clothes, first. Of course, one needs less in the sun. But one needs less anyway, one finds suddenly. One does not need a closet-full, only a small suitcase-full. And what a relief it is! Less taking up and down of hems, less mending, and—best of all—less worry about what to wear. One finds one is shedding not only clothes—but vanity.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
more infosource: Gift from the Sea (New York: Pantheon, 2005), 50th anniversary ed., 24–25.
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category: beach, clothes, materialism, ocean, paring down, sea, shed, simplicity, stuff
medium: nonfiction


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