short-cloth

Updated: June 5, 2025

Perhaps, however, we may give this anecdote, considering who it is that relates it: "My first short-clothes were of yellow serge; or rather, I should say, my first short-cloth, for the vesture was one and indivisible, reaching from neck to ankle, a mere body with four limbs: of which fashion how little could I then divine the architectural, how much less the moral significance!"

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh