“Clothes make the man,” said Mark Twain. He went on to observe that “Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Of course that was before the internet brought sex tapes, nude selfies and Kim Kardashian’s ass to our desktops, but still, we get the idea.
Surely, the opposite is true for dogs. A Bulldog in a tuxedo or a Chihuahua in a tutu may crack us up, but I imagine the only influence they would exert on their doggie peers would be to make them pray fervently that they are never subjected to the same indignity.