Quote#Wisdom
He had always been sartorially unlucky; he had always suffered ...…
Quote byStella Benson · 1892–1933
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Pipers and a Dancer (1924), Ch. 10 (p. 169).
English (original)
He had always been sartorially unlucky; he had always suffered ... from the devilishness of clothes. A conspiracy of tailors and outfitters, as it seemed to him, caused him always to be nipped at the armpits by waistcoats, irked across the back by coats, deserted by studs, tortured by shoes, blistered by socks, betrayed by sock-suspenders and braces.
— Stella Benson
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