“All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”

—  Lin Yutang

In Vogue, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, Vols. 30–31 (1937), p. 69

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