Many a women who thinks she has purchased a dress for the ridiculous price has actually bought it for an absurd figure.
Apparel Quotes
In these days Gertrude Stein wore a brown corduroy suit, jacket and skirt, a small straw cap, always crocheted for her by a woman in Fiesole, sandals, and she often carried a cane… This costume was ideal for Spain, they all thought of her as belonging to some religious order and we were always treated […]
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
What a man enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
Garter: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her, stockings and desolating the country.
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that. (“Martin Chuzzlewit”)
