 Clothes, though, for Sharp, are an essential tool; they enable her to blend in with her upper-class associates.Sharp's "desire for fashion and worldliness" is in tune with the snobbish affectations—which she emulates—and hypocrisies of English society, which she identifies immediately.She is, however, sufficiently socially adaptable as to be able to blend in with the Bohemians she later meets in Germany.