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Quotes About Dress

It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it.
~ Dave Rubin
inspection of kit, dress and rifle
~ Clive James
The fairies have washed their linen in the water of your dress.
~ Colette
How are you?" he asked softly. "Well," Tana said. "Every new outfit I get, I manage to ruin within a few hours." His grin was immediate, his gaze going to her dress and then away. "Leather wipes down.
~ Holly Black
In this hair, and with this dress, I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.
~ Holly Black
the dress clings to my chest and waist, skirt flaring over my hips. The tattered edges give it a haunting elegance, as though I am wrapped in the shadows of dusk. I look the picture of mysterious courtier, rather than someone who sleeps in dirt.
~ Holly Black
The girl had hair the deep aqua of the sea, drawn back with combs of coral. Her dress was grey sharkskin, and her brief curtsy was that of someone who had never questioned her own value. Her gaze swept the room with undisguised contempt.
~ Holly Black
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
~ Unknown
It was only a button. It was only a bit of thread. From a wrinkled blue dress I had once undone.
~ Lily King
Won't I be showing?" Libby fretted, looking from Julie to Paige. "Looking like a pillow smuggler in my wedding dress wasn't part of the fantasy, ladies.
~ Linda Lael Miller
While crude survival from one day to the next might be every human's ultimate animal goal, for generations the Mandible family had managed to dress up the project as considerably more exalted.
~ Lionel Shriver
Poppy is wearing a loose-fitting dress made of blue and white striped cotton, with navy woolen tights and a pair of navy leather pumps. Her brown hair is tied back and has two small red clips in it. It's a very formal outfit for a young girl, Laurel feels. The sort of thing she'd have had to bribe both her girls to wear when they were that age
~ Lisa Jewell
The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
~ Diablo Cody
Phin spared a moment of sympathy for Frank until he looked back and saw him at the bar, leaning into Clea's cleavage. Get a grip, Frank, he thought, and then he looked down Sophie's dress and thought, Never mind, Frank.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Rum and Coke, please, she told the bartender. Maybe that was why Liza and Bonnie never had guy trouble: great hair. She looked at Liza, racehorse-thin in purple zippered leather...Okay it wasn't just the hair. If she jammed herself into liza's dress, she'd look like Barney's slut cousin. Diet Coke, she told the bartender.
~ Jennifer Crusie
She's startin' to show her age, bless her heart, Brenda said with satisfaction. She was up all night working on your dress for your granddaughter, Lisa Livia snapped. She was up all night ruining my wedding dress, Brenda shot back. Bless her heart, Agnes said. Brenda jerked back to glare at Agnes.
~ Jennifer Crusie
the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
So don't. Come hang out with me at work. We can play naughty dress up with the hospital gowns and rearrange the supply closets.
~ Rachel Vincent
Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
~ Rebecca McKinsey
I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day.
~ Sevyn Streeter
I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.
~ Emilie de Ravin
My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.
~ Beyonce Knowles
I'm very human. My body is more like a woman that's not a model than it is like a model. I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it--it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal ... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.
~ Tyra Banks
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
~ Vera Wang