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To quote him on the subject: "What can be more depressing than the somber black which custom requires men to wear upon state occasions? A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows and is just about as inspiring." Mark Twain was simply being defiant in his old age to what he felt was the stuffy traditional dress of the upper class.

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