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"For the first time I noticed, too, how the attitude of women varies with a man's clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quiet frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat. Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramps clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded."