"For the first time she thought seriousy about clothes. Apart from warmth, protection and propriety, what was the idea of clothes exactly? [...] Patently the idea was to express what? Were clothes just saying "Look!"? Money and sex seemed to be the main comodities on offer here. Clothes could deny or affirm either of these. Mary speculated what her own clothes might have to say on the topics of money and sex. Could clothes express a lack of one and a simple bafflement about the other? Yes, but that wasn't what clothes were in business to do; that wasn't clothes' line; that wasn't what clothes were keen on expressing. Clothes were interested in other things, in abundance and expertise. Obliquely and perhaps inadvertently, clothes also did a third thing: they told other people about the soul they encased by dramatizing your attempted lies about money and sex..."
Martin Amis: Other People (1981.)
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