What’s the use of wearing braces? Vests and pants and boots with laces? Spats and hats you buy in places Down the Brompton Road? What’s the use of shirts of cotton? Studs that always get forgotten? These affairs are simply rotten, Better far is woad. Woad’s the stuff to show men. Woad to scare your […]
Clothes Quotes
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the coat outwears the pants Till there’s nothing left but the vest.
He carries – a nylon shirt. This, he dearly believes, from the advertisements, he can himself wash in his hotel, hang to dry overnight, and put on, without ironing, in the morning. (In my case, no ironing was needed, for, as someone cruelly pointed out in print, I looked, anyway, like an unmade bed.)
Women’s clothes are painting and men’s clothes are sculpture.
No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark.
The sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn’t wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don’t […]
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
