Folded blue jeans stand on a small round pedestal with a golden feather tucked into a pocket against teal.

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Gilda Radner

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says comfort drives their wardrobe choices: whatever does not irritate the skin wins. It is a humorous deflation of fashion's grand pretensions, replacing style theory with the plain, bodily test of whether a fabric bothers them.

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