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Quotation from Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”
Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 4 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331)
On the voyage home Captain Bartolus spreads an awning for Orlando because she wears a skirt, and the narrator reflects on what clothes do.
Citation: "Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us." — Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 4 (Project Gutenberg Australia #0200331). (id orlando-q5)
Portrait: Virginia Woolf 1927, Unknown author, Public domain.
