"A winning wave, (deserving note). In the tempestuous petticote: A carelesse shooe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility: Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part."
— Clothing

January 1, 1970

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Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder", line 9, in Hesperides (1648), reprinted in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1921), p. 28.