quotations about clothes
Clothes make the man.
ENGLISH PROVERB
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
MIUCCIA PRADA
attributed, The Little Black Book of Style
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
ALICIA KEYS
Vanity Fair, 2005
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Quote Unquote
Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
JAMES THOMSON
"Autumn", The Seasons
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: "This looks much better on." On what? On fire?
RITA RUDNER
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
The Emperor's got no clothes on
No clothes?
That can't be
He's the Emperor
CAROLE KING
"One Small Voice", Speeding Time
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
I consider it to be absolutely normal to care deeply about what we wear, and detest the puritan moralists who affect to despise fashion and those who love it. Who shrilly proclaim that only vain, foolish Barbie dolls, their brains addled by consumerism, would wear anything but sensible clothes made to last. As if appearances don't matter when, most of the time, they are all we have to go on. Or sometimes all that is left in the ruins of a life.
LINDA GRANT
The Thoughtful Dresser
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Modern Manners
You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
MAE WEST
Every Day's a Holiday
And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic
Tequila makes her clothes fall off.
JOE NICHOLS
"Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", III
Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.
ALEXANDER WANG
"25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time", Glamour, September 21, 2011
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
Seeing Through Clothes
Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents spirit to spirit, is properly a clothing, a suit of raimant, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of clothes, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole external Universe and what it holds is but clothing; and the essence of all science lies in the philosophy of clothes.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sartor Resartus
That's quite a dress you almost have on.
GENE KELLY
An American in Paris
Clothes are like a costume we wear to "get in the role" of who we really think we are.
ELIYAHU SAFRAN
Meditations at Sixty
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JOHNSON
The Poetaster
Clothes themselves are believed to be merely shifting ephemera on the surface of life, and so it is very easy to consider them trivial and to concentrate instead on the seriousness of what they mean. Deep personal concern about the details of one's own clothes may still be supposed to indicate a shallow heart and a limited mind; but serious thinkers, faced with the obvious power of dress even over very profound spirits, have been led to treat clothes as if they were metaphors and illustrations.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Seeing Through Clothes