Quotes About Clothing

I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.

Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

I hate the polo collar.

What makes clothing so potent is that people incorporate the fashion that they're wearing into their identity. It becomes part of you and how you show yourself to the world.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.

The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.

The way I cut my clothing... it is about empowerment and loving the curves of the body.

I'm booby and kind of curvy, so I definitely need to wear things that work with that. I can't just put on a muumuu, because it looks crazy on me.

Lardini is my go-to tailor. They work with me on a lot of personal things, which is nice.

I did not even know there are so many options for girls to wear. Playing a tailor gave me quite some knowledge about girls' clothing.

Men always look smart in a well-fitted, tailored suit. Conversely, they can be incredibly handsome in jeans combined with a cashmere jumper or a beaten-up leather jacket or even just a cotton T-shirt.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

I, personally, like good clothes. I appreciate a fine tailored suit, and I'm impressed with the expansion of color in men's wardrobes.

The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

Girls always ask me where I shop because I'm so tall, and I say, 'Ah, the store.' I don't really need special fittings.

Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

I'm 5ft 7in tall and a size six to eight on top and eight to ten on the bottom. Consequently, I get a lot of my clothes altered to fit, as I am always between sizes.

What we need to do is get rid of 'men's' and 'women's' sections and make sections that are, like, 'dresses for tall people,' 'pants for short people,' 'jeans for people with hips,' you know what I mean?