My street clothes are getting very shabby
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from The Hague, 3 June 1882
I should be very pleased if you perhaps had in your wardrobe a discarded coat and pair of trousers fit for me. For when I buy something, I do my best to get things which are as practical as possible for working in the dunes or at home, but my street clothes are getting very shabby. And though I am not ashamed to wear common clothes when I go out to work, I am ashamed indeed of gentlemen's clothes that have a shabby genteel air.
Letter 205
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I should be very pleased if you perhaps had in your wardrobe a discarded coat and pair of trousers fit for me. For when I buy something, I do my best to get things which are as practical as possible for working in the dunes or at home, but my street clothes are getting very shabby. And though I am not ashamed to wear common clothes when I go out to work, I am ashamed indeed of gentlemen's clothes that have a shabby genteel air.
Letter 205
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
Back to The Way of Vincent: Making art no matter what
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