it seems that dresses that are deemed perfectly acceptable for warwickshire neighbors , and approved for catching the eye of your good-natured cousin ( who , after all , cares so little for the arbitrary decrees of fashion , that he could not even be bothered to purchase a commission in a regiment that would clothe him in scarlet ) , would not do at all for bath , with its balls and concerts , and its wealth of well-born idlers and invalids .