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Clothes make the man

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Clothes make the man.
Prov. People will judge you according to the way you dress. Jim was always careful about how he dressed. He believed that clothes make the man.
See also: clothes, make, man


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Never judge a book by its cover; but the clothes make the man.
21) She analyzes this query using autobiographical accounts of visible distinctions, especially the importance of wearing breeches, for, proverbially, clothes make the man.
Although this work is not about fashion per se, it does have a lot to say about how clothes make the man.
 
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