This man was clothed in flowing white vestments, and they were just the thing for him; they comported well with his great stature and his kingly port and dignity.
European clothes would have degraded him and made him commonplace.

I know that, because they do that with everybody that wears them.
It was said that the old-time devotion to chiefs and reverence for their persons still survive in the native commoner, and in great force.

The educated young gentleman who is chief of the tribe that live in the region about the capital dresses in the fashion of high-class European gentlemen, but even his clothes cannot damn him in the reverence of his people.

Their pride in his lofty rank and ancient lineage lives on, in spite of his lost authority and the evil magic of his tailor.

He has no need to defile himself with work, or trouble his heart with the sordid cares of life; the tribe will see to it that he shall not want, and that he shall hold up his head and live like a gentleman.