sentence1: Brocade or chiffon dresses covered in who-knows-what utterances in beautiful Chinese and Arabic script, or dresses wittily made of paper printed with the New York Yellow Pages, all express a joyful relish in the decay of the written word, a forthright pleasure in the way its meaning has been draining away.
sentence2: Dresses made with pages from phone books, or with words of other languages printed on the fabric, have shown the newfound lack of respect for the written word.