What evidence in the text suggests that Soto's appearance was important to him? One Last Time

According to the text, Soto spends his hard-earned money for clothes, "wondering

not so much if they were worth it as who would see me first in those clothes" (lines

151-152). When he does not earn money for new clothes, he "worked like a

magician, arranging my wardrobe to make it seem larger than it really was" (lines

168-171).