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Quotes About Dress

I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it's just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.
~ Cody Simpson
Even so, these symbols still cause quite a fuss. Thirty percent of all issues in organizations are what I call boarding school stuff: rewards and punishments, how to dress, what time to show up, how to address superiors, how to behave properly. Even worse, they include fodder for the "green-eyed monster," jealousy, things like why somebody got a raise and somebody else didn't, why she got the better client account, or why he was asked to join the board.
~ Ricardo Semler
There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Hello!" The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. "Are you Dionysus?" There was only one answer to that. "Yes!" Leo yelped. "Absolutely. I am Dionysus.
~ Rick Riordan
I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird, she said pointedly and looked at the matron. Oh, my! She'll have to be broken! Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite. She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Now, I was well aware that certain sports required certain modes of dress for protection, but I failed to see how wearing a sleeveless blouse on the course qualified as a safety hazard. God forbid the sight of my bare shoulders should send male golfers into a tizzy, knocking balls everywhere.
~ Kelley Armstrong
S'infilò un vestito da tennis, lungo fino al ginocchio che si era cucita da sola accorciando l'orlo sfilacciato di un vecchio abito di sua madre. Non sarebbe andata a giocare a tennis, ma a ballare e il suo obiettivo era di sembrare americana. Si mise il rossetto e la cipria e si pettinò i capelli sciolti, sfidando la preferenza governativa per le trecce.
~ Ken Follett
Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new-reap'd,Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home:He was perfumed like a milliner,And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he heldA pouncet-box, which ever and anonHe gave his nose and took 't away again.
~ William Shakespeare
Then, as now, neatness in dress and form, with a strict conformity to the rules, were the qualifications required for office, and I suppose I was found not to excel in any of these.
~ William T. Sherman
Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so!
~ David Robert Jones
He was wearing a short, electric-blue dress and holding a silver clutch-bag. It was a party dress, really, not what anyone would wear on a Sunday morning to a newsagent's shop. Least of all a twelve-year-old boy.
~ David Walliams
If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The dress that hung close to her head, waiting for the first rays of the sun to light it into beauty, symbolized the wonder of the past few days.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time. You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.
~ Bat for Lashes
I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.
~ ASAP Rocky
I'm not against embracing my femininity, but I've never bought into the idea that you have to wear a dress to do that.
~ Sue Perkins
I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
~ Vik Muniz
My stylist told me Chanel wanted to dress me for the 'Stranger Things' premiere. It was such a big deal for me, knowing that Chanel wanted to work with me and that I was gonna go to one of my first big red carpets wearing Chanel. That was such a huge moment for me.
~ Sadie Sink
I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.
~ Olivia Culpo
I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.
~ Victor Garber
It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.
~ Brittany Snow
I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.
~ Kourtney Kardashian