Clothes Quotes

And now kind friends, what I have wrote, I hope you will pass o’er, And not criticize as some have done, Hitherto herebefore.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.

Whoever has two cloaks should share with the person who has none. And whoever has food should do likewise. (Luke 3:11)

Maybe the longing to see the naked body is a longing to know everything about someone. But you find the body itself is cover. That’s the reason the way one is dressed has meaning.

Of the skin he made him mittens, Made them with the fur side inside, Made them with the skin side outside. He, to get the warm side inside, Put the inside skin side outside. He, to get the cold side outside, Put the warm side fur side inside. That’s why he put fur side inside, […]

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 […]

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.