Quotes on clothing
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
Strindberg, August
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Ellerbee, Linda
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Thoreau, Henry David
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
Vionnet, Madeleine
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
Hill, Benny
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
Ruskin, John
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Parker, Dorothy
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Addison, Joseph
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Twain, Mark
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
Wilson, Elizabeth
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
O'Rourke, P.J.
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
Amies, Hardy
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Crisp, Quentin
I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.
Wedgefarth, W. Dayton
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
Yutang, Lin
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Lane, Janet
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Saying, Ancient Persian
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Bujold, Lois McMaster
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
Adams, Scott
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
Taylor, John
Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
Unknown, Author
Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.
Waters, Levende
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Chase, Edna Woolman
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Twain, Mark
Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't.
Morris, Bob
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
Putman, Andrée
Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her.
Cushman, Wilhela
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
Laver, James