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.
Clothes Quotes
They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen.
The newest prisoner’s crime was a mere remark which he had made. He said he believed that men were about all alike, and one man as good as another, barring clothes. He said he believed that if you were to strip the nation naked and send a stranger through the crowd, he couldn’t tell the […]
You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
To a man all things are possible but one – he cannot have a hole in the seat of his breeches and keep his fingers out of it. A man does seem to feel more distress and more persistent and distracting solicitude about such a thing than he could about a sick child that was […]
You don’t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won’t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn’t necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides. (Joseph Charles Kennedy)
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Many a one, for the sake of finery on the back, has gone with a hungry belly, and half-starved their families. “Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets, put out the kitchen fire.”
