The Club Short Slinky Gown ... If you have seen people wearing nicer clothing out, than you most likely noticed a good short slinky gown in your travels... Alright, maybe we are reaching a little too far for a captive audience, but we are using language to create a picture of a classic short slinky gown regulated to more than just modern dance halls or dinner parties full of yuppies...
Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My scrip of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope’s true gage,
And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage.
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self- will, more than of reason or even of self-interest.... Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)