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Potential Titles: Clothing [category]
Ankle Boots:
The ankle boots of an idea gone missing - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
Apparel:
The apparel of life and empire - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Apparelled for a conqueror's reign - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IV"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
Apron.
Armor.
Attire:
An assassin attired all in garb of old days - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
In the scorching attire of a November day - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
And the year in fresh attire - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"
Belt.
Bib:
Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"
Blazer:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Bodice:
Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Bonnet:
Earth's golden bonnet of the day - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Boots.
Buckle.
Business Suit:
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
Button.
Cap.
Cape.
Cardigan:
A thin cardigan of mid-December sun - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Cestus:
The cestus with enchantment fraught - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Chaplet.
Cloak.
Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.
Coat.
Collar:
an instruction manual on how to collar the uncontrollable - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
I lift up and button my collar of hope - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Bells on the collar of an invisible donkey - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"
Costume:
Into costumes of the past - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Honor this costume of sleep - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 11PM"
Cowl:
Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Cravat:
In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"
Crinoline:
Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Dress/Undress.
Fatigues:
fatigues borrowed from some dead comrade - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
Fishnets:
Siphoning memory like gas through fishnets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Garb.
Garment.
Garter:
You never cringe for star or garter - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Gauntlet.
Gear:
Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Girdle.
Glove.
Gown.
Hand-Me-Down:
Hand-me-down messages for the ages - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Hat.
Helm/Helmet.
Hood.
Jacket.
Kaftan:
A white kaftan weaved with wind for summer - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Kerchief:
Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Kid Glove:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Kirtle:
In your kirtle of borrowed skies - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Knee Highs:
They've got a blade in their knee highs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Livery.
Mail.
Mantle.
Mask.
Mitten.
Moccasin:
The doom's electric moccason [sic] - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
Negligee:
A negligee of gnats - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown"
Nightgown:
Cells nightgowned in moon - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Overcoat:
A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"
Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"
Her overcoat continuing to thin - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Petticoat:
didn't have time for ribbons or petticoats - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
Pinafore:
pinafore pockets full of oyster shells - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
Pocket.
Raiment.
Raincoat:
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Robe.
Sandal.
Sash:
Fashion a sash of heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
in a hot-scarlet sash - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"
Scarf.
Shawl.
Shirt:
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Shod/Shoe.
Silk Tie:
Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Skirt.
Sleeve.
Slipper.
Snowshoe:
Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Socks:
Harbinger of blankets and socks - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Suit.
Surgical Mask:
Feudalism never ended, it just put on a surgical mask - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
Sweater.
Swimsuit:
Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"
Tank Top:
Fiberglass arms bare in tank tops - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Toga:
Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Tutu:
Bears in tutus will spin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Tuxedo:
So weak in my feather tuxedo - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
Uniform:
Nor wear their shameful uniforms - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
The stiffening uniform of fame - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
So many boys imprisoned in uniforms - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
Veil.
Vest.
Vestment:
An angel in love's vestment clad - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Clad in their shipwrecked vestments - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On the tufted herbage spread my purple vestments - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Already in these vestments for our funereal rites - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In such tattered vestments, as belie my former rank - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Waistcoat:
Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Wallet.
Wedding Dress:
A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Widow's Weeds:
Put it away under widow's weeds - "Glorious!" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Winding Sheet:
Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
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The ankle boots of an idea gone missing - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"
Apparel:
The apparel of life and empire - Fernando Pessoa "Antinous"
Apparelled for a conqueror's reign - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet IV"
Puts apparel on my tatter'd loving - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXVI"
Apron.
Armor.
Attire:
An assassin attired all in garb of old days - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"
In the scorching attire of a November day - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
And the year in fresh attire - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"
Belt.
Bib:
Stone children in bibs and hats - Dana Levin "Zozo-ji"
Blazer:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
Bodice:
Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
Bonnet:
Earth's golden bonnet of the day - Jeannette Marks "Blind Sleep"
Boots.
Buckle.
Business Suit:
Watched God wandering the station in a business suit - T.R. Hummer "After"
Button.
Cap.
Cape.
Cardigan:
A thin cardigan of mid-December sun - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Cestus:
The cestus with enchantment fraught - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."
Chaplet.
Cloak.
Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.
Coat.
Collar:
an instruction manual on how to collar the uncontrollable - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"
I lift up and button my collar of hope - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Bells on the collar of an invisible donkey - Carl Phillips "Entire Known World So Far"
Costume:
Into costumes of the past - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
my costumes made of blood - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"
Honor this costume of sleep - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 11PM"
Cowl:
Their meek breath scenting the cowl of winter - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
Cravat:
In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"
Crinoline:
Measuring the crinolines of leaves - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"
Dress/Undress.
Fatigues:
fatigues borrowed from some dead comrade - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
Fishnets:
Siphoning memory like gas through fishnets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Garb.
Garment.
Garter:
You never cringe for star or garter - "April Fools" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.364, 4 April 1829]
Gauntlet.
Gear:
Jesters in funeral gear - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
Girdle.
Glove.
Gown.
Hand-Me-Down:
Hand-me-down messages for the ages - Paul Cameron Brown "Lavender"
Hat.
Helm/Helmet.
Hood.
Jacket.
Kaftan:
A white kaftan weaved with wind for summer - Karan Kapoor "In an Attempt to Seduce Death My Sister Starts Calling Him Love" [Strange Horizons 17 Feb. 2025]
Kerchief:
Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Kid Glove:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Kirtle:
In your kirtle of borrowed skies - Maxwell Bodenheim "Young Poet"
Knee Highs:
They've got a blade in their knee highs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Livery.
Mail.
Mantle.
Mask.
Mitten.
Moccasin:
The doom's electric moccason [sic] - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXVI: The Storm"
Negligee:
A negligee of gnats - Saeed Jones "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown"
Nightgown:
Cells nightgowned in moon - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Overcoat:
A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"
Made of earth and sea his overcoat - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XX"
Her overcoat continuing to thin - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Petticoat:
didn't have time for ribbons or petticoats - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"
Pinafore:
pinafore pockets full of oyster shells - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"
Pocket.
Raiment.
Raincoat:
His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"
Robe.
Sandal.
Sash:
Fashion a sash of heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
in a hot-scarlet sash - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"
Scarf.
Shawl.
Shirt:
Fanged house, shirt of flame - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
Wear silence as a tattered shirt - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"
Across the shirt of the icy firmament - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Shod/Shoe.
Silk Tie:
Their silk ties and their secret economies - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Skirt.
Sleeve.
Slipper.
Snowshoe:
Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"
Socks:
Harbinger of blankets and socks - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
Wish for socks of moss - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Moss"
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Suit.
Surgical Mask:
Feudalism never ended, it just put on a surgical mask - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"
Sweater.
Swimsuit:
Wearing a swimsuit on Thursday - Aimee Le "That Girl"
Tank Top:
Fiberglass arms bare in tank tops - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"
Toga:
Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid
Tutu:
Bears in tutus will spin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Tuxedo:
So weak in my feather tuxedo - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"
Uniform:
Nor wear their shameful uniforms - Ralph Chaplin "Salaam!"
The stiffening uniform of fame - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
So many boys imprisoned in uniforms - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
Veil.
Vest.
Vestment:
An angel in love's vestment clad - Blanche Benairde "Angels on Earth" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Clad in their shipwrecked vestments - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On the tufted herbage spread my purple vestments - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Already in these vestments for our funereal rites - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In such tattered vestments, as belie my former rank - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Waistcoat:
Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"
Wallet.
Wedding Dress:
A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"
Widow's Weeds:
Put it away under widow's weeds - "Glorious!" [Continental Monthly v.5 no.4 April 1864]
Winding Sheet:
Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.