quotations about clothes
Clothes make the man.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Quote Unquote
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
MIUCCIA PRADA
attributed, The Little Black Book of Style
You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
MAE WEST
Every Day's a Holiday
The Emperor's got no clothes on
No clothes?
That can't be
He's the Emperor
CAROLE KING
"One Small Voice", Speeding Time
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Modern Manners
Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
JAMES THOMSON
"Autumn", The Seasons
And the girls in their summer clothes
In the cool of the evening light
The girls in their summer clothes
Pass me by
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Girls in Their Summer Clothes", Magic
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Seeing Through Clothes
Tequila makes her clothes fall off.
JOE NICHOLS
"Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", III
That's quite a dress you almost have on.
GENE KELLY
An American in Paris
Western clothing is not a sequence of direct social and aesthetic messages cast in a language of fabric but, rather, a form of self-perpetuating visual fiction, like figurative art itself.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Seeing Through Clothes
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
ALICIA KEYS
Vanity Fair, 2005
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: "This looks much better on." On what? On fire?
RITA RUDNER
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
Because they share the perpetually idealizing vision of art, clothes must be seen and studied as paintings are seen and studied--not primarily as cultural by-products or personal expressions but as connected links in a creative tradition of image-making.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Seeing Through Clothes
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JOHNSON
The Poetaster
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
They are just clothes, shoes, and bags, you could say. And people do say it, day after day. But I think they are more than just clothes, shoes, and bags. They are a large part of a woman's character and tell us a bit of her story without saying a word.
NINA GARCIA
The Little Black Book of Style
Clothes themselves are believed to be merely shifting ephemera on the surface of life, and so it is very easy to consider them trivial and to concentrate instead on the seriousness of what they mean. Deep personal concern about the details of one's own clothes may still be supposed to indicate a shallow heart and a limited mind; but serious thinkers, faced with the obvious power of dress even over very profound spirits, have been led to treat clothes as if they were metaphors and illustrations.
ANNE HOLLANDER
Seeing Through Clothes