Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation. (Richard II)
Clothes Quotes
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles… that women from their […]
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Look how well my garments sit upon me. (The Tempest)
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.
The saleswoman was determined I buy a fur coat that did “wonders for madam – it’s so slimming.” It looked vast and weighed a ton. In despair, I turned to my husband, but it was our four-year-old who saved the day. “Oh, Mommy, it’s beautiful,” he said. “You look just like a gorilla!”
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.
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 […]