quotations about clothes
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
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
The Little Black Book of Style
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
Seeing Through Clothes
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, Life of Johnson
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Honest Man's Fortune
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
The clothes I wear say nothing about me, but judging me for what I wear says enough about you.
GEORGY
You said it was over
But your clothes say different on my bedroom floor
LIAM PAYNE
"Bedroom Floor"
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
attributed, Mademoiselle Chanel
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
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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
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
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983
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
"Sweedeedee"
The soul of this man is his clothes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
An apple tree in bloom puts to shame all the men and women that have attempted to dress since the world began.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Clothes are also adornment, they are pleasure, they signal our place in the world and send out highly important messages about ourselves. On the street, they are part of the aesthetic landscape. Trees, flowers, architecture, clothes.
LINDA GRANT
The Thoughtful Dresser