Casual friday (n.) is permission to look almost like a weekend.
Casual friday (n.) is a raise that costs nothing.
Casual friday (n.) is a dress code that relaxes one button and calls it freedom.
Casual friday (n.) is management letting you choose the collar.
Customs (n.) is a job interview for the country you already live in.
Customs (n.) confiscates a grandmother's sausage and waves the smuggler's suitcase through.
Customs (n.) asks whether you packed your own bag until you are no longer sure you did.
Customs (n.) makes honest people rehearse.
Fashion (n.) is more powerful than any tyrant.
Fashion (n.) is the one great magic wherever content is thought eternal and universally valid: the magic of changing form — so the Greeks enjoyed in their poets not originality but its opposite.
Fashion (n.) is the many imitating one man's self-contentment with his form — and it frees three-quarters of the energy anxiety would paralyse; even foolish laws give quiet of heart if many obey them.
Fashion (n.) is to be found in pasts just as it is in frocks.
Gift giving (n.) is easier the less you know somebody, and nearly impossible at the close end.
Gift giving (n.) is an annual exam on how well you have been listening.
Gift giving (n.) is deal making — Whoever makes great gifts wishes great gifts to be made to him in return.
Gift giving (n.) is influence peddling — A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.