quotations about clothes
Clothes make the man.
ENGLISH PROVERB
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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
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
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
You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
MAE WEST
Every Day's a Holiday
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
I'm tired of waking up in the same clothes
And the same holes in my skin
The same notes in the same hair
And the same words to the same songs in my head
LOW
"Same", The Curtain Hits the Cast
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
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tequila makes her clothes fall off.
JOE NICHOLS
"Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", III
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
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Quote Unquote
The clothes I wear say nothing about me, but judging me for what I wear says enough about you.
GEORGY
That's quite a dress you almost have on.
GENE KELLY
An American in Paris
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Life of Johnson
I'm sick of wearin hand-me-down, raggedy hood clothes
Call me ugly, man I wish a b**** would clothes
Go out to the club, yea we probably should clothes
Yea, uh, say I got on my good clothes, what
Uh, say I got on my good clothes
Yo, forty dollars I done got me some good clothes
LITTLE BROTHER
"Good Clothes", Getback
I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983