Quotes About Clothing

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear. That's unfair to me and unfair to all of my accomplishments.

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo.

I've got a clothing sponsor that helps me out with my clothes. It's called Bulky Boy Clothing, and they pretty much provide me with most of the shirts that I wear.

I'm not the kind of guy that really buys clothing. I'm lucky. Most of the time, if I want something, I can get it from my sponsors.

We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They're made from cotton.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.

Women aren't embarrassed when they buy men's pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler.

Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

I like men-inspired outfits.

Flea markets are also now legal in Cuba, and a petty trade in cast-off clothing and household goods takes place. Twelve years ago it was unthinkable for anyone to buy or sell anything in the open, for buying and selling were symptoms of bourgeois individualism and contrary to Fidel's socialist vision, in which everything is to be rationed—rationally, as it were—according to need. (In practice, of course, this meant rationing according to what there was, which was not much.)

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.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

A lot of brands are saying they're going to make 'gender neutral' clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.