Clothes Quotes

Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark.

The sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn’t wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived for a year or two to have been turned into a fur coat? I don’t […]

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

And in answer to the arguments urged by Puritans, Quakers, and etc. against showy decorations of the human figure, I once heard (Johnson) exclaim, “Oh, let us not be found when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of our contention from our souls and our tongues! Let us […]

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.