quotations about clothes
Clothes make the man.
ENGLISH PROVERB
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
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
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
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Quote Unquote
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
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
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
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
That's quite a dress you almost have on.
GENE KELLY
An American in Paris
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Modern Manners
Tequila makes her clothes fall off.
JOE NICHOLS
"Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", III
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 are like a costume we wear to "get in the role" of who we really think we are.
ELIYAHU SAFRAN
Meditations at Sixty
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
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
JOHN FLETCHER
The Honest Man's Fortune
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
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