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Quotes About Dress

I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.
~ Dove Cameron
Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.
~ Tagore, Rabindranath
Once in awhile, for a special occasion, I get really dressed up, but that kind of an occasion doesn't happen very often. So I don't really need much besides jeans.
~ Joey Heatherton
The fashion of the '90s is a massive inspiration to me. My favorite video of all time is 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls. That's the best styling ever. If I could dress like that every day, I would.
~ Charli XCX
I went to my first school dance on the set of 'Spider-Man.' The funny thing is, it wasn't actually real. I didn't choose my dress or my date or anything about it. I just showed up for work.
~ Angourie Rice
I like a bargain. If I want to splash out, I can rent a luxury dress, especially if I'm only planning on wearing it once. I often realise that I don't like it as much as I thought I would and I'm glad I didn't buy it.
~ Laura Whitmore
The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It's 'flip and flirty,' as my mother prescribed. It's crisp yet splendid. It makes me feel I've put on made-to-order armor. My mother's armor. Armor that helped shield me from exclusion. Armor that helped shield me from inferiority.
~ Margo Jefferson
I don't know which was worse the cost of the bridesmaid dress or having to wear it.
~ Debbie Etchings
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
~ Carrie Nation
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
~ Iris Apfel
I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.
~ Ellie Kemper
She had the kind of legs that kept her butt from resting on her shoes—a size-eight dame in a size-six dress and every mug in the joint was rooting for the two sizes to make a break for it as they watched her wiggle in the door and shimmy onto a barstool with her back to the door.
~ Christopher Moore
Of course there are gay Betas: the Beta Male boyfriend is highly prized in the gay community because you can teach him how to dress yet you can remain relatively certain that he will never develop a fashion sense or be more fabulous than you.)
~ Christopher Moore
El típico vn, vestidito negro: el equivalente indumentario de las armas nucleares.
~ Christopher Moore
Learning is not like a coin, which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn our through use and ostentation.
~ Umberto Eco
If you have only one chance to telegraph a message via the way you dress, why not make it a good impression
~ Valerie Frankel
In recent years scholars and costume curators have increasingly realized that fashion must be placed firmly within its cultural and historical context;the study of dress cannot be separated from women's history, for example.
~ Valerie Steele
If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?
~ Cassandra Clare
And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.
~ Cassandra Clare
I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon) 'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.
~ Cassandra Clare
She is…" Death turned her head, considering. "She is like a party dress I wear when I want to impress visiting dignitaries. Like your friend Betsy, I too am a Terrible Engine. I too have occasional need of awe. But between us, I think, there is no need of finery.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There's power in that, if you're after power.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
~ Oscar Wilde