Clothing is a fundamental expression of the self's relationship to the self. Prior to clothing the relationship is of the self to the other. Clothing filters the self and returns it to the body as an intrinsic image. The body image is there first for the body and for the self-awareness in that body, and not for the eye, neither its own (in front of the mirror) nor the other's (in the world). The self experiences itself not as a picture outside itself but as a moral power, as an inner quality. The tone of self-experience is linked to the tactile movement of the clothing: how the suit makes me feel and be felt. Or more precisely what propositions it makes to me so that I feel myself.

Dirk Lauwaert "Morality and Fashion"
from The Power of Fashion: About Design and Meaning