Quotes About Clothing

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

I was debating on whether to carry a second gun. A fashion accessory nearer and dearer to my heart than any piece of clothing.

And of course, she wore high-waisted bike shorts, a too-cropped-for-her-age tank

Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, O you most ungrateful creatures! You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you.

Where's my black top?" "I put it in the wash." "It was clean." "It had blood on it." "Yeah, but not mine.

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.

He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature. "Idea

Dortmunder lifted his gaze from his reproachful knees, and contemplated, without love, the clothing Andy Kelp had forced him into. He said, "Who wears this stuff?" "Americans," Kelp told him. "Don't they have mirrors in America?

When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

My Pocahontas-meets-seventies-Cher-style shirt. Oh, how I loved that shirt

I finally pick a cream-colored sweater and a blouse with a Peter Pan collar, with a corduroy mustard circle skirt. Plus tights and flats.

I'm wearing a red-and-green plaid bow tie with a white button-down and a tartan skirt.

Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

There is a heroic tower of folded things on the table. I spot my favorite shirt, my least depressing underwear. I go into the bedroom and change into them. Now I am a brand-new person.

To address this, we must wage a war on the militants. First, we must make it an offence, punishable by many years in jail, to ride a bicycle in anything other than what I like to call home clothes. Cycling shops selling gel for your bottom crack and outfits with padded gussets will be raided by the police and the owners prosecuted. This way, cyclists will be stripped of their uniforms and made to look like human beings.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

When people are complimented on what they're wearing, they accept as if it was about them. "Nice tie." "Thank you very much!" That's the job of clothes: to get compliments, because it's hard to get them based on human qualities. No matter how nice you are, nobody will say, "Nice person." It's easier to be a bastard and match the colors up.