Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn’t get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves...

If I saw a hitchhiker wearing a tie-dyed shirt, I’d assume he’s been waiting for a ride since the 1960s. I think that kind of patience is groovy.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible?We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary.On the days when you feel...

She said to herself: ‘Is not the gown the natural raiment of extremity? What nation, what religion, what ghost, what dream has not worn it—infants, angels, priests, the dead; why—should not the doctor, in the...

My writing, it’s all I have. Well, aside from my health. And shelter, food, and clothing. Oh, and my cat.

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless;...

Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry.

I should open up a dry cleaners/pizza parlor. Extra Stain Sauce will be free, but removing it out of your clothes will cost you.

It’s not the tailor that makes the man.

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

Before job interviews, I think: What color tie best represents me as a person this company would be interested in?

cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt...

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep,...

I’m not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.

I tried to raise my eyebrows in disbelief, but I forgot I’d packed away my eyebrows along with all my other winter clothing. My iced coffee was watery and warm with neglect.

I love the fashion which is out of fashion.

If you convert a shower curtain to a dress, I’ll wear my waterproof dancing shoes. Together we’ll move so fluidly people will line up to get cleansed.

I asked her to wear something revealing, so she showed up in a prophet’s toga.

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child’s shoes Cosette could still almost have worn,...

Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.

He wore red, white, and blue, but he didn’t look patriotic—he looked like a sloppily wrapped birthday present. But it’s not his fault. I tried to wrap him as tight as I could without restricting...

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...

What I really love about them… is the fact that they contain someone’s personal history…I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment… without thinking about the woman who owned...

There’s nothing like a good murder to remind us all how much love there is in the world. That’s what this guy’s probably thinking, as he stands alone and naked—emotionally, not physically—as he’s obviously wearing...

I’m ready for Betty if Debbie calls. I’ve got two Susans worth of excitement saved up in my pockets, and my grandma pants couldn’t be tighter.

Fashion is the way we present ourselves to the world.” – mastimall.com

Your clothes should be as important as your skin.

I wear brown shirts to protect against the combination of coffee and clumsiness.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together.

A commune of library employees in Moscow created an “extreme” commune in which all clothing – including undergarments – was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes...

It’s me and you, or me and knitting. Don’t make me choose. Ugh, #love.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

You look… amazing!” And I have to say, I agree. I’m wearing all black – but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the...

Mrs. Panabaker is ten years older than God and probably smarter. She stops into the offices every other Thursday to tell my dad what she didn’t like about his sermon the previous Sunday. She makes...

The sundress she wanted was too expensive for me, so I bought her a moondress. It’s not as shiny, but it still makes me howl.

All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.

At the end of the day, taking 50% off a $250 dress still means walking out of the store $125 poorer.

I Voted” sticker on it, so perhaps it’s as disgusted with politics as politicians are disgusting.

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn’t wear suits.

I fell in love with a raincoat. Well, at first. Then later I fell in love with the woman wearing it.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Until the sixteenth century, men–priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others–wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a ‘sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,’ writes Quentin Bell. This is still...

Clothing doesn’t really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.

It also must be hard to have a wife like Mrs. Indianapolis. She’s in the fashion industry. She’s not a model or designer, but she is a buyer—not for a retail outlet, but for her...

…[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, ‘Honey, you’re so beautiful it doesn’t matter what you wear.’ I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving...

She’d been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest […] If women’s pants were suggestive, men’s were equally so, and they revealed a great deal more of what was underneath them....

The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have...