She had never read Sartor Resartus, but she had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

她从未读过《成衣制》，但从女性直觉知道，比起个性价值与仪态魅力，一个人穿着对于大多数人来说具有更为强大影响力。

Just because he's got dark skin and drives a clunker and has a coat hanger for an antenna doesn't make him illegal.

虽然他长着黑皮肤 开着破车天线是用衣架制并不说明他是非法公民。

Clothes were made from curtains  and shoes were rehealed with old bits of tyre.

衣服是用窗帘制，鞋子则是用旧轮胎片修补。

His stock consisted of a wooden stool made out of a broken-backed chair, cut down, which stool young Jerry, walking at his father's side, carried every morning to beneath the banking house window that was the nearest temple bar.

他全部家当包括一把用断椅子制木凳。 每天早上，小杰里就扛着这把凳子， 跟在父亲身旁，走到特尔森近圣殿门那扇窗前。

The insert can be made from standard parts.

镶件可以用标准件制.

A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me.

中学毕业时她要一件黄色玻璃纱连衣裙穿着去参加毕业典礼；为了与她用别人送我一套旧衣服制绿色套服配着穿，她又要了一双黑色浅口皮鞋。

So you have to find a way to tailor it without cutting it, which

因此，你必须在不剪裁情况下找到一种制方法，这颇具挑战性。