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| The finest clothing made is a person’s skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~ Mark Twain |
| Unmentionables – those articles of ladies’ apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads. ~ Changing Times |
| A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~ James H. Boren |
| I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch. ~ Gilda Radner |
| 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 |
| People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~ Lee Mildon |
| It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| 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 |
| Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends…. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ~ Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~ Henry David Thoreau, |
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
~ Juvenal |
| 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 |
| I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. ~ Lin Yutang |
| A man hasn’t got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~ Anne Petry |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~ Françoise Sagan |
| Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that. ~ Charles Dickens |
| When in doubt, wear red. ~ Bill Blass |
| What a strange power there is in clothing. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~ Mark Twain |
| 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 |
| A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath’d at the same time. ~ Laurence Sterne |
| Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~ Author Unknown |
O what a sight were Man, if his attires
Did alter with his minde;
And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin’d
With his desires!
~ George Herbert |
| Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ~ Will Rogers |
| Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead. ~ Susan Catherine |
| 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 |
| The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~ John Taylor |