[Achilles nods in consideration for Haise's advice and takes from the shelf one of the indicated shirts, this one red in color: he realizes not that such dyes are not so difficult to come by as they are in his homeland, and so to him the rich color bespeaks fine quality fitting for a man of his status. Unfolding the shirt, he holds it up that he may inspect it more closely.]
This seems to me a suitable garment, but how am I to know if it shall fit ere I give my gold?
[The notion of buying clothing made by a stranger strikes him as curious indeed, for among his people, clothing is woven in the house at the looms of the household's women and servants. Thus there is no need to worry whether garments shall fit or not when each one is woven already to the specifications of the one who shall wear it. So too are sizes far more flexible when clothing entails large rectangles of fabric that drape the body and gather at the waist with a belt.]
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This seems to me a suitable garment, but how am I to know if it shall fit ere I give my gold?
[The notion of buying clothing made by a stranger strikes him as curious indeed, for among his people, clothing is woven in the house at the looms of the household's women and servants. Thus there is no need to worry whether garments shall fit or not when each one is woven already to the specifications of the one who shall wear it. So too are sizes far more flexible when clothing entails large rectangles of fabric that drape the body and gather at the waist with a belt.]