Instead, trademark law protects brand names, logos, symbols, designs and other optional elements of apparel and accessories, and trade dress law protects the design, packaging or appearance of apparel and accessories, solely to the extent they identify the source and origin of such products.

FORBES: Protecting Fashion Designs

"It changes your whole appearance and you need to dress accordingly, " she says.

WSJ: The Bearded Man

No, I was never impressed, he was too spidery, too weak in his conversation, and badly composed in his dress, careless of his appearance, but for all that I thought quite civilized in having so little gift to dissemble or pretend what he did not feel.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'