He has a restless, loose-limbed energy; in a dark suit, carelessly worn, with his caustic asides and wide knowledge, he seems more like a professor than like a career soldier, or a top police official.
There's a fairy-tale quality to this story of a poor girl, nose pressed to the windowpane, obsessively cataloguing the habits of that mysterious tribe the rich — their carelessly worn Pucci nightgowns, their clambakes in Maine.
Those rights are cherished, yet dismissed; defended by a dedicated crew of lawyers and the odd politician, but worn carelessly by most and regularly assailed by blundering governments.
"It's everything I like," said Ms. Prada before her show, referring to the done-undone quality of the outfits, with tweed or beaded chiffon dresses worn carelessly over drab cardigans, the garments left partly unbuttoned so they fell off shoulders.
Avedon portraits in Harper's Bazaar have shown Frank Lloyd Wright carelessly and arrogantly wearing a day's growth of beard, Truman Capote apparently impersonating St. Anthony, Elsa Maxwell in bed with a telephone and a pet skunk, and a head of Charles Laughton so enlarged that it looks like something seen through a microscope.
But masks can become contaminated by sneezes and soggy on humid days, and it is unclear whether changing them carelessly is more dangerous than not wearing them.
Her blonde hair is tied carelessly into a ponytail, she is wearing glasses, no make-up, jeans, a Gorillaz T-shirt and a comfy-looking black cardie.
Dovima was succeeded by Sunny Harnett, a rather racy-looking blonde who "resembled the ideal of the luxury-drenched woman of the world, with money to throw away," as Mrs. Vreeland has described her, adding, "She wore chinchilla and diamonds as carelessly as if they really belonged to her, and Dick had a way of making her believe that they did".
A popular Twitter hashtag made the point poignantly: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, where thousands of young men posted two very different possible photographic depictions of themselves: first, a carelessly taken selfie, perhaps frowning or showing a tattoo or wearing a hoodie, and then a second formal pose, as the upright citizen, the graduation picture in three-piece suit, the beloved mother's child.
Most of the time I am a sturdy man who wears the same clothes often, preferring garments of lifelong reliability; I shave carelessly and shrug off my latest wrinkles, because anyhow I never possessed even a waki's hope of being beautiful, nor felt the loss.
She wore lipstick and stuff on her eyes, she smelled of perfume, she confessed carelessly that she wouldn't know how to change a plug, let alone rewire a house (this was what Graham's mother had done in the cottage, the previous summer).
