quotations about clothes
Life is too short to wear boring clothes.
CARLY CUSHNIE & MICHELLE OCHS
Cushnie et Ochs
If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.
ERIN KELLY
The Poison Tree
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.
MARILYN MONROE
attributed, Marilyn Monroe: A Life from Beginning to End
Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
ADA LEVERSON
Tenterhooks
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
SOPHIA LOREN
attributed, And I Quote
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783
May I take off clothes covering shame at the border
leaving them hanging on dry trees of arrogance
and run by wearing the rays of the sun.
SUMAN POKHREL
Song of Soul
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another's.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebook
New clothes are like a fresh skin.
STEPHEN ROMANO
Resurrection Express
Never underestimate the power of a good outfit on a bad day.
FINJA BRANDENBURG
Soul Notes
Pity the poor designer who must see his clothes degraded by proximity to the ordinary human body.
LINDA GRANT
The Thoughtful Dresser
Goin' where the climate suits my clothes.
THE GRATEFUL DEAD
"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"
Clothes are objects that we co-opt as we confront the natural world of sun, wind, rain and cold and the social world of sex, status, power and communication. They have a multitude of properties that we confer and exploit through this co-option.
TIM DANT
Material Culture In The Social World
She felt that an article of clothing could change a person ... each skirt, blouse, necklace, or humble shoe said something -- certain pieces screamed, and others whispered seductively, but no matter, she experienced each item's expression keenly.
MIN JIN LEE
Free Food for Millionaires
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, Free to Be Fabulous
It is a traveler's fallacy that one should shop for clothing while abroad. Those white linen tunics, so elegant in Greece, emerge from the suitcase as mere hippie rags; the beautiful striped shirts of Rome are confined to the closet; and the delicate hand batiks of Bali are first cruise wear, then curtains, then signs of impending madness.
ANDREW SEAN GREER
Less
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Orlando