quotations about clothes
Clothes make the man.
ENGLISH PROVERB
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.
MIUCCIA PRADA
attributed, The Little Black Book of Style
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you've got to have a good spirit on the inside. That's what's really going to make you look like you're ready to rock the world.
ALICIA KEYS
Vanity Fair, 2005
I consider it to be absolutely normal to care deeply about what we wear, and detest the puritan moralists who affect to despise fashion and those who love it. Who shrilly proclaim that only vain, foolish Barbie dolls, their brains addled by consumerism, would wear anything but sensible clothes made to last. As if appearances don't matter when, most of the time, they are all we have to go on. Or sometimes all that is left in the ruins of a life.
LINDA GRANT
The Thoughtful Dresser
Clothes are like a costume we wear to "get in the role" of who we really think we are.
ELIYAHU SAFRAN
Meditations at Sixty
You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini.
MAE WEST
Every Day's a Holiday
Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
BEN JOHNSON
The Poetaster
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Modern Manners
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Quote Unquote
The clothes I wear say nothing about me, but judging me for what I wear says enough about you.
GEORGY
Tequila makes her clothes fall off.
JOE NICHOLS
"Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off", III
I'm tired of waking up in the same clothes
And the same holes in my skin
The same notes in the same hair
And the same words to the same songs in my head
LOW
"Same", The Curtain Hits the Cast
The Emperor's got no clothes on
No clothes?
That can't be
He's the Emperor
CAROLE KING
"One Small Voice", Speeding Time
I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day.
NEIL GAIMAN
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
JAMES THOMSON
"Autumn", The Seasons
Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents spirit to spirit, is properly a clothing, a suit of raimant, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of clothes, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole external Universe and what it holds is but clothing; and the essence of all science lies in the philosophy of clothes.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sartor Resartus
I'm sick of wearin hand-me-down, raggedy hood clothes
Call me ugly, man I wish a b**** would clothes
Go out to the club, yea we probably should clothes
Yea, uh, say I got on my good clothes, what
Uh, say I got on my good clothes
Yo, forty dollars I done got me some good clothes
LITTLE BROTHER
"Good Clothes", Getback
You said it was over
But your clothes say different on my bedroom floor
LIAM PAYNE
"Bedroom Floor"
That's quite a dress you almost have on.
GENE KELLY
An American in Paris