Her uniform: everyday clothes, plus a pair of fluffy white-and-blue slippers shaped like airplanes.

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Clothes with everyday designs are worn regularly in business and academic settings, while special varieties are incorporated into celebrations of marriage and pregnancy and into puppet theatre and other art forms.

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Those are deductible only if you must wear them as a condition of your employment and the clothes are not suitable for everyday wear.

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The Tax Court pointed out that for Hamper to deduct the costs of her work clothes, she had to wear them as a condition of her employment and the clothes could not be suitable for everyday wear.

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Silk touches the lives of rural Chinese in more material ways, too, in the form of the silk clothes, quilts, umbrellas, fans and flowers that punctuate everyday life.

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