Look how well my garments sit upon me. (The Tempest)
Clothes Quotes
I Made my song a coat, Covered with embroideries, Out of old mythologies. From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.
And now kind friends, what I have wrote, I hope you will pass o’er, And not criticize as some have done, Hitherto herebefore.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise. (Luke 3:11)
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self… So the hell with it. If you find me so repulsive, then look for a boyfriend who is more appealing to female tastes. But I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage […]
I know it is a sin, For me to sit and grin, At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Dress has a moral effect on the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address.
Before he was summoned back to Lake Geneva, he had appeared, shy but inwardly glowing, in his first long trousers, set off by a purple accordion tie and a “Belmont” collar with the edges unassailably meeting, purple socks, and handkerchief with a purple border peeping from his breast pocket. But more than that, he had […]
