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.
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 […]
In London, Wilde came to know the famous of the literary and theatrical world, wrote romantic poetry, and adopted peculiar attire. He would wear knee breeches, a velvet jacket, and black silk stockings, and he would carry a sunflower or a lily in his hand. All this was part of his pose as a dandy, […]
