Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes are our epidermis, or false skin, which partakes not of our life, and may be stripped off here and there without fatal injury;

穿在我们最外面的，常常是很薄很花巧的衣服，那只是我们的表皮，或者说，假皮肤，并不是我们的生命的一部分，这里那里剥下来也并不是致命伤；

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But it was mostly skin deep, and it kept turning into a kind of false nostalgia--a parallel to the rash of "heritage" fetishism in the 1980s.

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