Silks and satins put out the kitchen fire. [ Proverb ]

Silks and satins put out the fire in the chimney. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gay mellow silks her mellow charms infold, and nought of Lyce but herself is old. [ Young ]

He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the rattling of his fetters; for, indeed, clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. [ Thomas Fuller ]

The great inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil. [ Isaac Taylor ]