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Quotes About Clothing

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
~ William Shakespeare
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
~ Jason Evert
We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.
~ David Walliams
A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
~ E. W. Howe
Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.
~ Bill Bryson
For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
~ George Herbert
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
~ John Taylor
My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.
~ Tonya Harding
Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother.
~ Mika
My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.
~ Rita Rudner
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".
~ Richard A. Falk
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
~ Phillip Lim
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
~ Bernard Malamud
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.
~ George Herbert
How do you knowyou're a girl?I'm wearing a frock.And if you take it off?I get cold, so I putit back on.If I was a boy, I don't know what I'd do.
~ Ivor Cutler, Scots Wa' Straw
If I had the power, I would ban leggings.
~ Jil Sander
Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls; Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in; Dresses in which to do nothing at all; Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
~ William Allen Butler
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
~ William Banting
An honest man, close-button'd to the chin,Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
~ William Cowper
Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.
~ William Donaldson