The fatal dress : Daniel Defoe's Roxana
Talk about muslin : Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Unrepentant dandies : William Thackeray's Pendennis
The woman in white and the woman in colour : Wilkie Collins's Woman in white and Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's secret
"Mind and millinery" : George Eliot's Middlemarch
Shades of white : Henry James's "Siege of London" and "The author of Beltraffio"
Consuming clothes : Edith Wharton's House of mirth
The missing wedding dresses : Samuel Richardson's Pamela to Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac.
