Clothing Quotes and Sayings

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper’s Bazaar while waiting at the dentist’s to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement.  My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, “Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won’t Be Naked.
- Molly Ivins

It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
- Jean Paul Gaultier

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent.  A person, yes.
- Robert A. Heinlein

The finest clothing made is a person’s skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
- Mark Twain

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.
- Honoré de Balzac

Her frocks are built in Paris but she wears them with a strong English accent.
- Saki

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
- Elsa Schiaparelli

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed.  There ain’t much credit in that.
- Charles Dickens

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

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Frederick G. Banting

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
- Ancient Persian

Clothes don’t tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.
- Anonymous

Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids.  This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
- Scott Adams

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
- Mark Twain

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

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

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they .
- Leonardo da Vinci

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- Samuel Johnson

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