shabby quotes

Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.8.

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  The House of Mirth, bk.1, ch.1.