Clothing Accessories

Clothing Accessories 

See Also: JEWELRY

1. Boots that shone like a well-rubbed table —Stephen Vincent Benet
2. A collar that looked like a pancake flapping around my head and … made me look like a pregnant penguin —Elizabeth Taylor
3. Glasses as thick as the bottom of a pop bottle —George Garrett
4. Handkerchief hoisted like a brave little flag from his breast pocket —Vicki Baum
5. Hat big as an Easter cake —Joyce Cary
6. A hat … perched right on top of her head, like a mushroom —Roald Dahl
7. Impenetrably black sunglasses like Batman’s mask —John Rechy
8. Shoes gleaming like beer bottles —Loren D. Estleman
9. Shoes … shined up like patent leather —George Garrett
10. Shoes sticking out like tongues beneath the long black robe —Helen Hudson
11. Silk, like wrinkled skins on scalded milk —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
12. Socks which fell like a couple of woolen concertinas over his dusty shoes —John Mortimer
13. Straw hat with a bow on it like the sails of a windmill —L. P. Hartley
14. A ten-gallon hat like a walking mushroom —Truman Capote
15. Tie … loose and awry like a long lazy tongue … wore a costume as distinctive as a ballet dancer’s tutu —Van Wyck Mason
16. Ties pulled loose from their collars, like weary gamblers —Graham Swift