Clothing Quotes and Sayings - Page 4

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde

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

All women’s dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
Lin Yutang

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
Mignon McLaughlin

A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.
Anne Petry

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
Philip Dormer Stanhope

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
Anonymous

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
Helen Lawrenson

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
Quentin Bell

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads – at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.
Levende Waters

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
John Taylor

Stretch pants – the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
Anonymous

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn’t it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn’t wait to take it off you?
Flash Rosenberg

To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be “in fashion” could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.
Anonymous

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?
Linda Ellerbee

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
Lin Yutang

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.
W. Dayton Wedgefarth

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.
Wilhela Cushman

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
P.G. Wodehouse

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.
John Ruskin

I simply can’t understand
Why swimsuits are in such demand
They’re soggy and damp,
Bind like a clamp,
And hold about three pounds of sand!
D.R. Benson

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
Sydney J. Harris

The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
Thomas Carlyle

You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.
Carolyn Kenmore

Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
Frank Burns

For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.
William Wycherley

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