Her face and hands and finger nails must be spotless as the muslin which surrounds them.

The down-at-heel old shoes are exchanged for suitable slippers.

Her mind runs along new channels.

She has much more respect for the wearer of the new, clean wrapper than for the wearer of the old, soiled one.
"Would you change the current of your thoughts?
Change your raiment, and you will at once feel the effect." Even so great an authority as Buffon, the naturalist and philosopher, testifies to the influence of dress on thought.

He declared himself utterly incapable of thinking to good purpose except in full court dress.