CLOTHES QUOTES III

quotations about clothes

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That's quite a dress you almost have on.

GENE KELLY

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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

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Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

YVES SAINT LAURENT

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See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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They are just clothes, shoes, and bags, you could say. And people do say it, day after day. But I think they are more than just clothes, shoes, and bags. They are a large part of a woman's character and tell us a bit of her story without saying a word.

NINA GARCIA

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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

JOHN FLETCHER

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You wash them clothes
Swee dee dee
And hang 'em on the line
I can see by the way
You wash them clothes
Your cookin' must be fine

CAT POWER

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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

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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

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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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

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Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

ALEXANDER WANG

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I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

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Clothes are like an extension of our bodies, an outer skin, and so the day-in, day-outers find it reassuring to stick to the same outfit.

NAOKI HIGASHIDA

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I, who love woman, wanted to give her clothes in which she could be comfortable, in which she could drive a car, yet at the same time clothes that emphasized her femininity, clothes that flowed with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

COCO CHANEL

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Because they share the perpetually idealizing vision of art, clothes must be seen and studied as paintings are seen and studied--not primarily as cultural by-products or personal expressions but as connected links in a creative tradition of image-making.

ANNE HOLLANDER

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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

JONATHAN SWIFT

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I find people better looking without clothes than with clothes. You can go to a gym and go to a steam room and you see someone and think, He's really handsome. Then he puts on his clothes. Some weird pants. A thumb ring. Some weird socks. And it's gone!

TOM FORD

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Western clothing is not a sequence of direct social and aesthetic messages cast in a language of fabric but, rather, a form of self-perpetuating visual fiction, like figurative art itself.

ANNE HOLLANDER

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