Uniforms

(195 votes)   We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(164 votes)   Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

Angela Carter
1940-1992, British Author

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(152 votes)   This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Thomas E. Lawrence
1888-1935, British Soldier, Arabist, Writer

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