Unseasonal clothing actually only stands out when it's visibly uncomfortable.

We're actually a wolf in sheep's clothing,

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.