And in answer to the arguments urged by Puritans, Quakers, and etc. against showy decorations of the human figure, I once heard (Johnson) exclaim, “Oh, let us not be found when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of our contention from our souls and our tongues! Let us […]
Clothes Quotes
You don’t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won’t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn’t necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides. (Joseph Charles Kennedy)
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. “Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire.”
You must understand that this is not a woman’s dress I’m wearing. It’s a man’s dress.
Good clothes open all doors.
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
