How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"We want [the judge] to be reminded of his own daughter or niece or neighbor when he looks at you." (2.79)
They really want to play on Piper's identity as "educated white girl" here, so they dress her in a conservative skirt suit when going before the judge. It doesn't work.
Quote #5
My attire made it glaringly obvious that I was new. (3.99)
Even in prison, a woman's identity can be defined by her clothes. The rags she gets when she first gets in make her stand out big time, like someone wearing shoulder pads and feathered hair would today.
Quote #6
He pushed a red and black shoebox toward me, containing my very own pair of heavy black steel-toed shoes. […] Now I was a for-real, hardened con. I felt infinitely better. (4.13)
Piper has only been in prison for two days, so we think she's jumping the gun a bit in giving herself "hardened con" status. But hey, if the shoe (literally) fits…