Famous clothing quotations

   Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
 ~ by Mark Twain

   The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
 ~ by Madeleine Vionnet

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Wise Words, Witty Proverbs
   Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
 ~ by Molly Ivins

   All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
 ~ by George Bernard Shaw

   Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.
 ~ by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.
 ~ by Laurence Sterne

   There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
 ~ by Virginia Woolf

   It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
 ~ by Jean Paul Gaultier

   Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
 ~ by Edna Woolman Chase

   Unmentionables - those articles of ladies' apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads.
 ~ by Changing Times

   A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.
 ~ by Helen Lawrenson

   I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.
 ~ by Marilyn Monroe

   Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
 ~ by James Laver

   For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.
 ~ by William Wycherley

   A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
 ~ by James H. Boren

   Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.
 ~ by Georg Simmel

   Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
 ~ by Author Unknown

   Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
 ~ by James Laver, Style in Costume

   I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
 ~ by Andrée Putman

   The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
 ~ by Thomas Carlyle

   Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
 ~ by William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819

   Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.
 ~ by Susan Catherine

   The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
 ~ by Hardy Amies

   Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?
 ~ by P.G. Wodehouse

   To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be in fashion could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue.
 ~ by Author Unknown



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