Clothing Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
When you’ve seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf
If it does stand out (my clothing) , then I guess it’s a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
Shania Twain
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
Julia Stiles
If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
Dalai Lama
The clothes 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.
Madeleine Vionnet
Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.
Susan Catherine
Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. Carrie Latet Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine.
Carrie Latet
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
Elizabeth Wilson
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
Scott Adams
A sheep in sheep’s clothing.
Winston Churchill
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach – but not the perfect suit.
Edward Tivnan
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Bible: Psalms
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man…
Denis Diderot
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
Anne Hollander
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
William Arnot
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn’t look too strange in the country.
Hardy Amies
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
George Bernard Shaw
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
Roland Barthes
Carelessness in clothing is moral suicide.
Honore de Balzac
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Martina Navratilov
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.”
Bill Cosb
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
Margaret Mead
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind…cast-off and everyday clothing.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Anonymous
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
James Laver
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all — friends?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else’s do.
Elizabeth Bowen
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