fine feathers make fine birds

Ms. Hadley's beautiful, cold mother told her things like, "Fine feathers make fine birds."

Did fine feathers make fine birds?

'Fine feathers make fine birds, Mary,' said I, 'but I would rather you'd admire me naked.'

There is an amusing nod in the fable's direction in Amelia Bauerle's etching "Fine feathers make fine birds" in The Yellow Book.

Kleider machen Leute (Clothes make the man or Fine feathers make fine birds) is a comic opera in a prologue and two acts by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.

It was also part of her live album FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS.