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| Sideglance Robe | ||
| A dress that is invisible or opaque, depending on how you look at it. |
| "Don't take her away," the slim blonde protested. She wore a sideglance robe, invisible out of the corner of the eye, but an opaque fountain when looked at directly. |
| Technovelgy from The Trouble With Bubbles,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by If in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare this to the transdress from Niven and Barne's 1992 novel The California Voodoo Game and the plastirobe from a 1954 PKD story.
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