logo

Quotes About Attire

One of the things I figured out was that I was having good gigs when I wore jumpers. It was because I looked more like an outsider, so they expected me to talk about weird stuff rather than normal stuff.
~ James Acaster
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
~ Tom Ford
Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?
~ Tom Selleck
We looked each other up and down, checking out how the other looked. She won that battle. Her tailored suit was well made, her dark silk stocking tops visible just beneath her too-short skirt. Her make-up was immaculate: bright red lips and highlighted eyes stood out against her smooth, almost imperceptible foundation. And there I stood in my frayed grey trousers, my leaking black brogues and my gaudy military jacket.
~ Unknown
different size—a smaller one. I'd love to buy a dress for a wedding
~ Unknown
Physical appearance is more straightforward—what you wear sends a pretty clear, established message about how you feel. For example, wearing old sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and having disheveled hair every day tells the world you've given up, while overdressing for every occasion and never missing your weekly haircut lets people know you are trying too hard.
~ Travis Bradberry
You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trouser, shoes, and a shirt.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Of course she will put on a cap,' said Sophie, with a pitying look. 'How could she possibly receive strange gentlemen without a cap? But her hair must be dressed under it.
~ Patrick O'Brian
and in less time than he had ever known a woman take to dress she was back in a travelling habit and a broad-brimmed veiled hat.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Rihanna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.
~ Peggy Orenstein
The woman serving me was wearing a white sports bra that looked like it had been mauled by tigers--desert isle chic.
~ Dave Eggers
had numerous pairs of dress chinos and blue blazers and Topsiders, and a smile that looked as though someone had plugged him in.
~ David Foster Wallace
You're wearing that bow tie, after all. Isn't that rather an invitation to a young sir?
~ David Foster Wallace
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.
~ William Shakespeare
Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.
~ William Trevor
suspenders as he did so, though his shirt wasn't tucked
~ William W. Johnstone
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
~ Woody Allen
Wieczna pustka jest w porz?dku, je?li jest si? odpowiednio ubranym.
~ Woody Allen
The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.
~ Unknown
He was wearing a plain white oxford unbuttoned over a T-shirt, but something about the way they fit made him look put together, like an Abercrombie model (well, like an Abercrombie model who had remembered to put on a shirt that morning).
~ Claire LaZebnik
If you're wearing it to 'da club, you shouldn't be wearing it to 'da office.
~ Clinton Kelly
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
~ Coco Chanel
His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn't have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.
~ Unknown
Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.
~ Hilari Bell