Everyone in Leather!

Fear and Loathing :

"Reading the front page made me feel a lot better. Against that heinous background, my crimes were pale and meaningless. I was a relatively respectable citizen--a multiple felon, perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. And when the Great Scorer came to write against my name, that would surely make a difference.
Or would it? I turned to the sports page and saw a small item about Muhammad Ali; his case was before the Supreme Court, the final appeal. He'd been sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to kill 'slopes.'
'I ain't got nothin' against them Viet Congs,' he said. Five years." (74)

The Arcades Project:
"Grund has made the ingenious suggestion that the bonnet, which is contemporaneous with the crinoline, actually provides men with directions for managing the latter. The wide brim of the bonnet is turned up--thereby demonstrating how the crinoline must be turned up in order to make sexual access to the woman easier for the man." (80)

from the "Biographical Note" in the 2000 Perennial edition of The Bell Jar: "The pressures of the fashion world which seems increasingly superficial and artificial, the return home to the dead summer world of a suburb in Boston. Here the cracks in her [the heroine, Esther Greenwood's] nature which had been held together as it were by the surrounding pressures of New York widen and gape alarmingly. More and more her warped view of the world around--her own vacuous domestic life, and that of her neighbors--seems the one right way of looking at things." (254)