The poetry of dress

A sweet disorder in the dress

Kindles in clothes a wantonness: --

A lawn about the shoulders thrown

Into a fine distractiòn, --

An erring lace, which here and there

Enthrals the crimson stomacher, --

A cuff neglectful, and thereby

Ribbands to flow confusedly, --

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat, --

A careless shoe-string, in whose tie

I see a wild civility, --

Do more bewitch me, than when art

Is too precise in every part.