Do Clothes Make the Man
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance --Henry Ward Beecher. ... A bishop in gardener’s clothes appears at the door of an aristocratic dinner party and is scornfully turned away. ... In Buñuels film, the clothes not only make the man, but are the man. ... The modern clergyman has exchanged his cassock and collar for the anonymity of civilian clothes, robbing strangers of the ability to recognize him in an emergency. ... I also understood that shedding the clothes that identify us as a certain class or individual is not the solution.