I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. ~Lin Yutang


Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown


Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~Mark Twain


If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye; she's wearing your best sweater. ~Pam Brown


Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight; I could hardly breathe. ~Benny Hill


A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~Fran?oise Sagan


Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. ~Quentin Crisp


No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. ~Murray Banks


Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli


"Although a life-long fashion dropout; I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement; discerned by true cognoscenti; is; ""Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.""? ~Molly Ivins"


I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson; Letters and Social Aims


Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor; and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered; spindle-shanked; crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!? ~Herman Melville


Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen?? He wore pants. ~Lynn Lavner


Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?? ~Roland Barthes


Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves; will; in general; become of no more value than their dress. ~William Hazlitt; On the Clerical Character; 1819


A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren


Fashion Law:? If the shoe fits; it's ugly. ~Author Unknown


Of all the things you wear; your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane


Women usually love what they buy; yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin; The Neurotic's Notebook; 1960


Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies; in my mind; a flaw in the understanding. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope


I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular; the most practical; the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression; modesty; sex appeal; simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent


Sweater; n.:? garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce


Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau; Walden


It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau


"To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself; know what you represent; and know what works for you. To be ""in fashion"" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. ~Author Unknown"


A man cannot dress; but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. ~Laurence Sterne


For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire; and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. ~William Wycherley


On the subject of dress almost no one; for one or another reason; feels truly indifferent:? if their own clothes do not concern them; somebody else's do. ~Elizabeth Bowen


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. ~Elizabeth Bibesco


Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ~Charles Dickens


I love America; and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much. ~Andr?e Putman





The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ~Hardy Amies


Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?? ~P.G. Wodehouse


It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. ~Jean Paul Gaultier


Unmentionables - those articles of ladies' apparel that are never discussed in public; except in full-page; illustrated ads. ~Changing Times


A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry


Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies. ~Levende Waters


One should either be a work of art; or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde


You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore


As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you; so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ~John Ruskin


I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively; and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes; but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes; but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth


The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. ~Madeleine Vionnet


Do not trouble yourself much to get new things; whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau


It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off. ~Author Unknown


What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. ~Brendan Francis


A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being; and public to private. ~Elizabeth Wilson


High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ~Christopher Morley


Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition:? it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body; or even of the soul. ~Quentin Bell


Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. ~Scott Adams


Be careless in your dress if you will; but keep a tidy soul. ~Mark Twain


If honor be your clothing; the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor; it will soon be worn threadbare. ~William Arnot


The finest clothing made is a person's skin; but; of course; society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain


Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction; and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen


Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue; it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. ~Georg Simmel


What a strange power there is in clothing. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer


A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex; but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. ~Helen Lawrenson


His clothes fit him so ill; and constrain him so much; that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. ~Philip Dormer Stanhope


People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon


Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ~Dorothy Parker


If I were a cat; what would make me purr?? A pair of really comfortable blue jeans; and massages. ~Cinnamon Stomberger


The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency; but ornament.... Among wild people; we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. ~Thomas Carlyle


Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better; but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ~Will Rogers


Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress; a wonderful suit; or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her. ~Wilhela Cushman


What do nudists wear on casual Fridays?? ~A.J. Esther


"Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. ~Gabrielle ""Coco"" Chanel"


I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner


Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead. ~Susan Catherine


Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. ~Honor? de Balzac


If love is blind; why is lingerie so popular?? ~Source Unknown


The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~John Taylor


Every uniform corrupts one's character. ~Max Frisch





Know; first; who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ~Epictetus


When I free my body from its clothes; from all their buttons; belts; and laces; it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper; freer breath. ~August Strindberg


After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~Douglas William Jerrold


I don't know who invented the high heel; but all men owe him a lot. ~Marilyn Monroe


She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen; Getting Even; 1973


Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. ~James Laver; Style in Costume


If men can run the world; why can't they stop wearing neckties?? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?? ~Linda Ellerbee


The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ~Cecil Beaton


Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ~Edna Woolman Chase


Like every good man; I strive for perfection; and; like every ordinary man; I have found that perfection is out of reach - but not the perfect suit. ~Edward Tivnan


When in doubt; wear red. ~Bill Blass


All dress is fancy dress; is it not; except our natural skins?? ~George Bernard Shaw


I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person; yes. ~Robert A. Heinlein


Shopping tip:? You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~Author Unknown


Clothes are never a frivolity:? they always mean something. ~James Laver


If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture; let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. ~Albert Einstein


There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast; but they would mould our hearts; our brains; our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf


Fashion is architecture:? it is a matter of proportions. ~CoCo Chanel


Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~P.J. O'Rourke


When you can't do something truly useful; you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available; like snappy dressing. ~Lois McMaster Bujold





All women's dresses; in every age and country; are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. ~Lin Yutang


I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet. ~Ancient Persian Saying


Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties; they'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. ~Carrie Latet


Clothes can suggest; persuade; connote; insinuate; or indeed lie; and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander


If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater... suggest that he wear a tail. ~Fran Lebowitz


There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. ~Joseph Addison


Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't. ~Bob Morris


No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ~Frederick G. Banting


Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes?? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?? ~Flash Rosenberg


Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris