Mr. Doboszenski laughed as he looked down at his robe.
Ms. Foley said the process of deciding what to store at Garde Robe helped her edit down her wardrobe.
"I just wouldn't bring it up," said Sarah Wolfe, a fashion collector from Southport, Conn., who stores her haute couture Chanel and Balenciaga at Garde Robe.
Bismarck famously remarked that the statesman can only listen for God's footsteps and clutch at his robe; another great realist, Charles de Gaulle, when told he was indispensable, replied, "The graveyard is full of indispensable men".
She looked down at her hand holding the phone, at her legs in her robe, at her notebook full of notes about her phone conversations.
The drawing stops at the end of John's robe, at about the point on the London panel where Joseph's walking stick meets John and the Magdalene's robes.
For pure glamour check out an 18th-century Buddhist monk's robe at Arthur Leeper, who is at the fair for the first time.
At UCL, robes are mandatory, on top of a £30 ticket price that graduands have to pay to attend.
The southern gate statue has many unusual features – unusual headgear; a large skull above the forehead; lips parted with protruding teeth; statues adorned with a single bead necklace, earrings, plain twisted armlets and thick wristlets; a stooped right shoulder; a globe held at navel level; the robe is held at the right thigh by the left hand, and the legs are shapeless.
He revealed, however, that he wore a robe "at first", because he was, after all, a congressman.And a good one.
In a 1930s illustrated card, a stripper named Mary takes off her red velvet robe at a Christmas party.
