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do clothes make the language?
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Text: Elisabeth Stursberg After contemplating why proverbs tend to have something antiquated, slightly quaint about them in the last issue, we are now turning our eyes to the present. After all, it is an interesting question: How do new proverbs come into being, and which sentences from our language today might one day become proverbial? Succinct quotes have great potential, for instance, by the unforgotten Karl Lagerfeld, who famously stated: ÂťSweatpants are a sign of defeat. Those who wear sweatpants have lost control over their lives.ÂŤ (Translation by the author) In this age of athleisure and #healthgoals, it is unlikely that Lagerfeld was condemning sweatpants in general. Rather, he was probably alluding to a certain sociological context, and, above all, to certain standards he wanted people to set for themselves. These standards may manifest themselves in fashion choices but go far beyond them. 96