CLOTHES QUOTES III

quotations about clothes

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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

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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

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Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.

BEN JOHNSON

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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

JOHN FLETCHER

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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

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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

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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

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

GEORGY

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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

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

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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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

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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

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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You wash them clothes
Swee dee dee
And hang 'em on the line
I can see by the way
You wash them clothes
Your cookin' must be fine

CAT POWER

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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

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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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The soul of this man is his clothes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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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

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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

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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

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