Kleider machen Leute (Eng: Clothes make the man) is a comic opera by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.

[3] The score was originally published by Bote & Bock but later acquired by Universal Edition Vienna.

[4] On a provincial road, Wenzel Strapinski (a tailor's apprentice) is saying goodbye to two of his colleague friends.

Strapinski convinces the people of Goldach who treated him as a count that his only motive for playing along was his love for Nettchen.

When he wants to leave, Nettchen stops him again, declaring that if she can not be a countess, she will gladly be the wife of a master tailor.