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Tuesday 4 December 2007

Beautiful shirts in literature


Dave Hill quotes Daisy in The Great Gatsby on the appeal of a beautiful shirt

Recovering himself in a minute he opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.

2 comments:

Techapostle said...

Hi

What a thought! Shirts stacked in a wardrobe, and suits too!

:)

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Anonymous said...

I have to mention the "shirts" chapter in James Salter's novel Light Years ... I'm sorry I've loaned my copy so can't give an excerpt. The pleasure and importance of a well-tailored shirt, and the intimacy between the tailor and his client. Lovely.