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《成衣匠的改制》，但从女性的直觉知道，比起个性的价值与仪态的魅力，一个人的穿着对于大多数人来说具有更为强大的影响力。

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 开着破车天线衣架改制的并不说明他非法公民。

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

衣服帘改制的，鞋子则旧轮胎片修补的。

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.

他的全部家当包括一把断椅子改制的木凳。 每天早上，小杰里就扛着这把凳子， 跟在父亲身旁，走到特尔森银行靠近圣殿门的那扇前。

The insert can be made from standard parts.

镶件可以标准件改制.

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；为了与她别人送我的一套旧衣服改制的绿色套服配着穿，她又要了一双色浅口鞋。

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

因此，你必须在不剪裁的情况下找到一种改制的方法，这颇具挑战性。