More Romantic Fashion Stuff:
“His thin and wiry frame was covered by the think, heavy folds of a dark and ample cassock, like something out of Dante.  He did not wear this outfit in the street yet, it is true, but that was from failure of nerve rather than failure of desire.  I have no need to tell you then, that Onuphrius was very avant-garde, and an out-and-out Romantic.”
Theophile Gautier, “Onuphrius, ou Les Vexations Fantastiques D’un Admirateur D’Hoffmann."
I love the “yet” here...like maybe ONE day he will get up the courage to wear his fave outfit out in public?
(This story is AMAZING, by the way; it features an artist who sort of...dies and comes back to life to find that his work is now super-famous...but his worst enemy has signed his name to it.
Also - the Devil draws a mustache on the guy’s portrait of his mistress.)