CLOTHES QUOTES III

quotations about clothes

Clothes are like a costume we wear to "get in the role" of who we really think we are.

ELIYAHU SAFRAN

Meditations at Sixty


You said it was over
But your clothes say different on my bedroom floor

LIAM PAYNE

"Bedroom Floor"


I'm tired of waking up in the same clothes
And the same holes in my skin
The same notes in the same hair
And the same words to the same songs in my head

LOW

"Same", The Curtain Hits the Cast


I consider it to be absolutely normal to care deeply about what we wear, and detest the puritan moralists who affect to despise fashion and those who love it. Who shrilly proclaim that only vain, foolish Barbie dolls, their brains addled by consumerism, would wear anything but sensible clothes made to last. As if appearances don't matter when, most of the time, they are all we have to go on. Or sometimes all that is left in the ruins of a life.

LINDA GRANT

The Thoughtful Dresser


I, who love woman, wanted to give her clothes in which she could be comfortable, in which she could drive a car, yet at the same time clothes that emphasized her femininity, clothes that flowed with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

COCO CHANEL

attributed, Mademoiselle Chanel


Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

JOHN FLETCHER

The Honest Man's Fortune


Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, Life of Johnson


Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983


The clothes I wear say nothing about me, but judging me for what I wear says enough about you.

GEORGY

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Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents spirit to spirit, is properly a clothing, a suit of raimant, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of clothes, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole external Universe and what it holds is but clothing; and the essence of all science lies in the philosophy of clothes.

THOMAS CARLYLE

Sartor Resartus


The soul of this man is his clothes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well


I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983


I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

YVES SAINT LAURENT

Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983


An apple tree in bloom puts to shame all the men and women that have attempted to dress since the world began.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


I'm sick of wearin hand-me-down, raggedy hood clothes
Call me ugly, man I wish a b**** would clothes
Go out to the club, yea we probably should clothes
Yea, uh, say I got on my good clothes, what
Uh, say I got on my good clothes
Yo, forty dollars I done got me some good clothes

LITTLE BROTHER

"Good Clothes", Getback


I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day.

NEIL GAIMAN

The Ocean at the End of the Lane


See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Clothes are also adornment, they are pleasure, they signal our place in the world and send out highly important messages about ourselves. On the street, they are part of the aesthetic landscape. Trees, flowers, architecture, clothes.

LINDA GRANT

The Thoughtful Dresser


Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

ALEXANDER WANG

"25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time", Glamour, September 21, 2011


Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.

LINDA GRANT

The Thoughtful Dresser