A. N. Wilson, the novelist and critic, says he wears the same clothes (usually a three-piece suit and bow tie, plus a shirt with a deep and curled-up collar) until they smell. Then he drops them in the corner of the room.The Young Fogey Handbook, Suzanne Lowry (1985)
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That was my husband's way too until marriage broke his spirit.
Rather dingy not dandy.
Poor guy. In a stronger man, the spirit would have broken the marriage.
dE
Des Esseintes, did you take a close look at Tabitha's pic?
I used to think that I was Des Esseintes.
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