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 […]
Clothes Quotes
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.
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.
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.
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot […]
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.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
