“I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.”
John Buchan book The House of the Four Winds
Prologue
The House of the Four Winds (1935)
“I didn't even have a uniform, just a cap. I wore my regular clothes. The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes.”
— Charles Bukowski, book Post Office
Post Office (1971)
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