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Quotes About Dress

On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc.
~ Helen DeWitt
Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy
American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
~ lewis sinclair ii
Lesley Manville comes at 'funny' from a totally different direction in 'Phantom Thread,' using snootiness and froideur. The effect of her performance - as the difficult manager of her difficult brother's couture dress business - stems in part from the chill she puts into her line readings.
~ Wesley Morris
Keep it simple. I usually have my hair up in a ballet bun and a great pair of sunglasses for when I'm on the go. On vacation, all you need is a sexy dress and great perfume, paired with a gorgeous red lip.
~ Lily Aldridge
The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.
~ Leila Janah
The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.
~ Jasper Fforde
Your red dress,' she said, and laughed. But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.
~ Jean Rhys
Nobody's hidden your dress, she said. It's hanging in the press. She lookked at me and said, I don't believe you know how long you've been here, you poor creature. On the contrary, I said, only I know how long Ihave been here. Nights and days, and days and nights, hundreds of them slipping through my fingers. But that does not matter. Time has no meaning. But something you can touch and hold like my red dress, that has meaning. Where is it?
~ Jean Rhys
It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
~ Daisy Donovan
My style is streamlined, sophisticated and simple, so I usually go for a dress. No matching involved. I am bad at matching! I like easy and when you're done, it looks like a second skin. I wear dresses every day for that reason. It's easy!
~ Hoda Kotb
What I'm doing is British. It stems from the same culture as U.S. hip-hop, but the way we dress, the way we speak, the way we perform is so different. It's U.K. street culture.
~ Stormzy
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.
~ Isabella Blow
I did not have a black coat to wear to the Oscars. It was a mandatory dress code, that was the reason I gave it a miss.
~ Gulzar
Think about the style of the occasion before you plan your outfit.
~ Jenny Packham
I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
~ Camila Alves
This mulatto gentleman could powder and dress as he liked, however, because he was acknowledged to be the greatest swordsman in Europe. Over the previous decade and a half, every white champion had stepped up to try to beat Saint-Georges; except for one Italian, who fought him under exceptional circumstances, they all failed. Saint-Georges
~ Tom Reiss
different size—a smaller one. I'd love to buy a dress for a wedding
~ Unknown
You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trouser, shoes, and a shirt.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trousers, shoes, and a shirt.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.
~ Idara Victor
She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.
~ Danielle Steel
Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling. I didn't mean no harm, I said and kissed her. That a new dress? Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.
~ Unknown