In London, Wilde came to know the famous of the literary and theatrical world, wrote romantic poetry, and adopted peculiar attire. He would wear knee breeches, a velvet jacket, and black silk stockings, and he would carry a sunflower or a lily in his hand. All this was part of his pose as a dandy, […]
Clothes Quotes
Naked, what am I? A lank, skinny, spider-legged libel on the image of God! Look at the waxwork head – the face, with the expression of a melon – the projecting ears – the knotted elbows – the dished breast – the knife-edged shins – and then the feet, all beads and joints and bone-sprays, […]
I have only one coat. I eat the same food and am dressed in the same tatters as my humble herdsmen.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking, But now, God knows, Anything Goes.
What would a man be – what would any man be – without his clothes? As soon as one stops and thinks about that proposition, one realizes that without his clothes a man would be nothing at all; that the clothes do not merely make the man, the clothes are the man; that without them […]
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke.
Titles- another artificiality- are a part of clothing. They and the (clothes) conceal the wearer’s inferiority and make him seem great and a wonder, when at bottom there is nothing remarkable about him.
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party… Most significant of all was his loose-leaf pocket note-book, that modern and efficient note-book which contained the addresses of people whom […]
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
