Walt Whitman’s wardrobe was relatively conservative, “a suit of gray, and a white slouch hat.” He did not wear Greek robes and sandals or set himself too much apart from others with his clothing.

 

          Harry Stafford, quoted in Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols., (New York: New York University Press, 1961-77) 3: 9.