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Quotes About Clothing

Jeans can make or break a look, and if it's not a good-fitting pair, if they don't flatter your body, it doesn't matter what else you've got on - it's not going to look good.
~ Tan France
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
~ Anthony Doerr
I don't think people experiment enough with clothing because society tries to tell them what they can and can't wear. I love playing around with different aesthetics and/or mixing around aesthetics to create a totally new look.
~ Bretman Rock
A trip to Tel Aviv is a ritual. I always wear the same clothes to Tel Aviv: black pants and a blue-checked shirt that I bought especially from Ralph Lauren.
~ Sayed Kashua
On official trips you listen to officials who guide you and also clothing choices, because there are certain places where you have to have your head covered for example, or whatever it is, and I listen to the professionals.
~ Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
The straps that suspend a man's trousers from his shoulders - known in the U.S. as 'suspenders' and in Britain as 'braces' - are always correct with a summer suit made of seersucker, linen, or silk.
~ Roger Stone
People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
~ Tamer Hassan
Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.
~ Naomi Alderman
Now, I'm older. I don't follow the vagaries of fashion: my look tends to be skinny flat-front trousers with a long-sleeve American Apparel T-shirt and a V-neck cashmere jumper - preferably Loro Piana.
~ Patrick Cox
To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I have always been really scared of trousers, they aren't flattering.
~ Holly Willoughby
Striped shirts and printed shorts, jeans, and trousers are all items I buy and wear a lot in my private life.
~ Liu Wen
When I stayed with my father in Africa, I was always covered from head to foot in a shirt buttoned to the neck and khaki trousers. But I often got burnt feet, because I wore sandals, which might explain the cancer on my foot.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
~ Michael Shermer
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
~ Russell Baker
Wait, so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants, too?
~ Kiersten White
The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.
~ Beth Ditto
You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement
~ Cassandra Clare
The woman pawed at her body, clothing it, preening it. They tugged at her hair, wound it with flowers. There was something greedy about their attentions. It made Pharinet's flesh crawl.
~ Storm Constantine
Breathless with anticipation, I let Livvy drap me in her cloths, giddy from the dabs of sharp scent behind my ears.
~ Storm Constantine
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
~ Mark Twain
Giving context to how radical bloomers as an article of clothing were at the time] The women shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord they God. - Deutronomy 22:5
~ Miriam Gurko
Rania's clothes said, This is me! Yasmin's said, I am a stranger to myself.
~ Monica Ali