Quotes about dress

"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."

Addison, Joseph on dress   

"The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country."

Amies, Sir Hardy on dress   

"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."

Ashford, Daisy on dress   

"From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first."

Brecht, Bertolt on dress   

"If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed."

Brummel, Beau on dress   

"Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism."

Carter, Angela on dress   

"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck."

Chanel, Coco on dress   

"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."

Chesterfield, Lord on dress   

"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."

Chesterfield, Lord on dress   

"There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on dress   

"Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on dress
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"Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire."

Dickens, Charles on dress   

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"I dress for women and I undress for men."

Dickenson, Angie on dress
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"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 on dress
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"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 on dress
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"Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Euripides on dress
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"Good clothes open all doors."

Fuller, Thomas on dress   

"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."

Goldsmith, Oliver on dress   

"A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms."

Gregory, Dr. on dress   

"They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them."

Grenfell, Joyce on dress   

"The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?"

Hamnett, Katharine on dress   

"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."

Harrington, Michael on dress   

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

Hazlitt, William on dress   

"Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one."

Johnson, Samuel on dress   

"All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress."

Lin Yu-tang on dress   

"Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you."

Malkovich, John on dress   

"It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid."

Meynell, Alice on dress   

"So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on."

Newton, John on dress
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"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?"

Parker, Dorothy on dress   

"An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce."

Patton, Phil on dress   

"How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best."

Proverb on dress
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"No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on dress   

"Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse."

Rogers, Will on dress
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"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on dress   

"The apparel oft proclaims the man."

Shakespeare, William on dress   

"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man."

Shakespeare, William on dress
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"The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on dress   

"For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique."

Steinem, Gloria on dress   

"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk."

Swift, Jonathan on dress