“‘Don’t dress just yet. In the cupboard on the right hand side of the bath, you’ll find a collection of burnouses and haiks and pyjamas. Take anything you like.’
    Vincent appeared twenty minutes later dressed in a pistachio-coloured silk jellabah.
    ‘Oh, wait a minute—wait! Let me arrange you!’ cried Lillian in delight. She pulled out of an oriental chest two wide purple scarves; wound the darker of the two as a sash round Vincent’s waist, and the other as a turban round his head.
    ‘My thoughts are always the same colour as my clothes,’ she said. (She had put on crimson and silver lamé pyjamas.)”

—André Gide, The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy, 1927.