Quotes About Clothing

I'm taller than most actresses, so most corsets tend to be too short in the body.

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

My mum used to wear the guys' Chesty Bonds tanks, and I used to end up wearing them after she'd finish with them. She's a painter, and they would be covered in paint splatters. She would wear them and wear them until they were super-soft, and then I'd get them. But I was just a kid, so they were like a dress on me.

She had found in the past that a voluptuously long, hot shower cold be made to seem almost as health-giving as a night's sleep; she had learned too that taking exquisite pains over the selection and putting-on of clothes could sometimes be as good a way as any of helping the hours to pass.

Now get some clothes on before the women around here are driven into a frenzy." He gave me a mournful look. "I'm afraid that'll happen with or without clothes, my dear.

She was wearing something in purple suede that was too short for a skirt and too long for a belt.

I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other. Oversized clothes, sneakers, hats on backwards, or sideways. Most of them tried to look confident. Most of them were full of pretense. All of them were a little overmatched by the speed at which the world came at them. But these kids weren't like other kids, and I knew it. These kids were doomed. And they knew it.

The wayfarer was lean and keen-featured, and somewhat bowed at the shoulders; his paws were thin and long, his eyes much wrinkled at the corners, and he wore small gold ear rings in his neatly-set well-shaped ears. His knitted jersey was of a faded blue, his breeches, patched and stained, were based on a blue foundation, and his small belongings that he carried were tied up in a blue cotton handkerchief.

Size 8 women's, and a men's 10.

best clothing money could buy, and then he would give Diane even more clothing at Christmastime. And if that hadn't already been enough, he also made sure to buy Diane a whole new summer wardrobe at the end of every school year.

Uwaaaaahh! Why does taking off traditional clothing sound so suggestive?! --Kaoru Hanabishi

Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?" He gaped down. "Oh, come on!

He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.

If you respect your body enough to put modest clothes on, then more people will respect you as a person.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words -- burnt eggs.

She felt the dampness of her palms and wiped them on the back of her black cotton skirt.

Cuando la intimidad carnal se viste con la dignidad de una indumentaria como la que llevaban los dos esa tarde, engendra una tensión contenida tal que parece que los cuerpos, aguantando el aliento, estuvieran llamándose el uno al otro. Es lo que se llama la 'filosofía del atuendo'.

If a lost time traveller popped up in a medieval village and asked a passerby, 'What year is this?' the villager would be as bewildered by the question as by the stranger's ridiculous clothing.

Rien n'est plus beau qu'un corps nu. Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.

We want customers who need our clothing, not just desire it.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.