In celebration of the meaning of cloth, here are some musing on the meaning of clothes from famous folk throughout history:
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. –Quentin Bell
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak. –Juvenal
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. –Laurence Sterne
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. –Epictetus
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. –Oscar Wilde
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
–Mark Twain