“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”
“Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.”
“It was like seeing someone who wore a striped tie or parted his hair on the left — a detail, but not a telling one.”
“Well, she wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of desperation in a woman.”
“so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?”
“...she wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.”