“The clothes make the man.” — Mark Twain
An old, old adage, which, depending upon the amount of chemical-electrical activity in your prefrontal cortex, might be true. For beautiful clothes, or a beautiful person caparisoned in beautiful clothes, reflect achievement and affluence. Yet withal, clothing is highly personal, thus it also reflects taste.
Beautiful clothes have an indirect impact upon somatic beauty. Clothing serves to enhance and influence beauty. And the bizarre thing is this: clothing evokes feelings of beauty rather than defining or pointing to beauty. That is, beautiful clothing arouses feelings of beauty both in the observed and the observer. Or try putting it this way: beautiful clothes give action to beauty, which means that for many simply being beautiful is not enough — for beauty, in and of itself, is quite static, from some perspectives. Thus beauty, in its erotic pursuit of esteem, seeks to place itself in evidence, i.e., give itself action, for esteem is awarded only on the basis of evidence. In this sense, then, the artful display of beauty is an achievement — an achievement which itself is a form of beauty.
Beautiful display of the beautiful. Beauty within beauty — beauty surrounded by beautiful taste and beautiful fashion — all presented beautifully.
