Quotes / Jacob Marley Apparel

Literature

"There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith."

— The Devil's Dictionary, "Ghost"

"I wanna know what you WEAR up in Heaven, too. If you're stuck in the clothes you had on just before you died, I seriously hope nothing bad happens to me on Halloween."

— Greg Heffley, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball

Isaiah: If I'm ever a ghost, I hope I get a choice in what I'm cursed to wear for the rest of eternity. Like, do you think it's just whatever you're wearing when you die? Or is there an afterlife greatest hits mood board where you get to assemble your own ghost drag?
Myla: If I get to pick, I want to be wearing, like... one of those jumpsuits from the end of Mamma Mia!. I go to haunt people but it always turns into a musical number. That's the energy I want to bring to the hereafter.
Niko: (I'd pick a) brocade suit, open jacket, no shirt.
Wes: A slanket covered in shrimp chip crumbs.
Isaiah: Very Tiny Tim.

— August's friends discuss this trope in One Last Stop

Tabletop Games

"You're going to throw yourself off a bridge, what are you wearing a heavy coat for? You don't want to be uncomfortable on the last day of your life? Joke's on you, lady — the other side is cold, too. And maybe you did get to take that coat with you, but it's not like it actually does you any good when it's part of your Corpus. Surprise surprise, now you're cold forever."

— Geist: The Sin-Eaters

Visual Novels

Qmin: if someone died with a dildo in em would their ghost keep the dildo
GhostlyChloe: OMG
Qmin: that's how you can get one
Qmin: chloe we gotta kill a guy
GhostlyChloe: don't drag me into this!!!
Qmin: i gotta get u a ghost dildo gal, there's no other way

— Sex Advice Succubus

Web Original

just-shower-thoughts: Everytime you get dressed remember that, if you die, that's your ghost outfit forever.
brigwife: nothing in this world has ever motivated me to sort out my dress sense more than this post

— Tumblr post◊

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