Kleider machen Leute
Clothes Make People
Alteration tailor shop and dry cleaning reception point in Margareten, Vienna's 5th district
"Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" is the title of a famous novella by by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) which was first published in 1874.
The story is about the journeyman tailor Wenzel Strapinski, who dresses well despite his poverty. He arrives in a foreign town called Goldach and is mistaken for a Polish count because of his appearance. After failing to clear up the confusion out of shyness, he tries to escape. But then a young lady, daughter of the magistrate, enters the scene. The two fall in love, whereupon the tailor continues to play the role of the count forced upon him. A spurned rival ensures that the supposed impostor is unmasked. A scandal breaks out at the engagement party. Strapinski flees, but his bride finds him, saves him from freezing to death and confronts him. When she is convinced that his love is genuine, she professes her love for him and enforces the marriage. The tailor sets up a studio with her fortune and brings it to prosperity and prestige, thus proving the proverb "Clothes make people". de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleider_machen_Leute
On this website you can read the whole story in the German original and in an English translation: www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article907
Kleider machen Leute
Clothes Make People
Alteration tailor shop and dry cleaning reception point in Margareten, Vienna's 5th district
"Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" is the title of a famous novella by by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) which was first published in 1874.
The story is about the journeyman tailor Wenzel Strapinski, who dresses well despite his poverty. He arrives in a foreign town called Goldach and is mistaken for a Polish count because of his appearance. After failing to clear up the confusion out of shyness, he tries to escape. But then a young lady, daughter of the magistrate, enters the scene. The two fall in love, whereupon the tailor continues to play the role of the count forced upon him. A spurned rival ensures that the supposed impostor is unmasked. A scandal breaks out at the engagement party. Strapinski flees, but his bride finds him, saves him from freezing to death and confronts him. When she is convinced that his love is genuine, she professes her love for him and enforces the marriage. The tailor sets up a studio with her fortune and brings it to prosperity and prestige, thus proving the proverb "Clothes make people". de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleider_machen_Leute
On this website you can read the whole story in the German original and in an English translation: www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article907