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Quotes About Attire

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.
~ Sophie McShera
I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.
~ Tom Stoppard
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I like to dress up every now and then.
~ Calvin Johnson
I love leather jackets, and I am obsessed with it. I carry leather jackets fairly well.
~ Arjun Kapoor
I'm obsessed with leather jackets!
~ Joanna Garcia
It might seem ludicrously simple, but the obvious answer to what to wear on your bike is whatever that helps you enjoy cycling.
~ Chris Hoy
I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.
~ Sebastian Maniscalco
Coast is my go-to store for any awards do - it's brilliant for occasion wear.
~ Kate Garraway
It is a sign of respect when one shows up to an occasion dressed to the nines.
~ Sonja Morgan
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York. (on Tom Wolfe)
~ Norman Mailer
Females of domestic reputation lounged upon the balconies they passed with faces gotten up in indigo and almagre gaudy as the rumps of apes and they peered from behind their fans with a kind of lurid coyness like transvestites in a madhouse.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Avevamo tutti l'aspetto di cadaveri: perché nulla fa pensare tanto a un morto quanto un uomo vestito da sera in pieno giorno.
~ Curzio Malaparte
Il Principe diede mano alla Principessa perché si alzasse: ella era già abbigliata e con gran magnificenza: ed egli fu abbastanza prudente da farle osservare, che era vestita come la mi' nonna, e che aveva un camicino alto fin sotto gli orecchi, come costumava un secolo addietro.
~ Charles Perrault
For some reason the mundanity of it all offended Gideon. You'd think people would have the good grace to dress up for an assassination.
~ Cherie Priest
Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man's good character is marked by his impeccable attire.
~ Hal Duncan
and got dressed
~ Lee Goldberg
It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.
~ Lemony Snicket
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is always interesting to observe what people are wearing in the middle of the night, although there are more pleasant ways to make such observations without being accused of murder.
~ Lemony Snicket
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
~ Jane Austen
No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!
~ Jane Austen
Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?
~ Jane Austen
Ahora deja que te mire, Fanny, y te diga lo mucho que me gustas. Realmente, por lo que puedo juzgar con esta luz, estás muy bonita. ¿Qué te has puesto?
~ Jane Austen