INTRODUCTION TO FASHION QUOTES
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BEST FASHION QUOTES
Unmentionables — those articles of ladies’ apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads. – Changing Times
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. – Mark Twain
Dressing well is a form of good manners. – Tom Ford
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
FUNNY FASHION CLOTHES
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
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. – Robert A. Heinlein
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
– Juvenal
FAMOUS FASHION QUOTES
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
MENS FASHION QUOTES
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
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
What a strange power there is in clothing. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
FASHION INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
Without black-velvet britches, what is man? – James Bramston, “The Man of Taste,” 1733
For the apparel oft proclaims the man… – William Shakespeare, Hamlet [I, 3, Polonius] [This is actually part of the “to thine own self be true” speech. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy. – Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927 (Thanks, Garson O’Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)
FASHION DESIGNER QUOTES
After all, what is the purpose of clothing? Are not clothes intended primarily to preserve dignity and also to afford comfort to the wearer? Now I know of nothing more uncomfortable than the present day clothes of men. The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
The best-dressed man I have ever seen, however, was a native of the Sandwich Islands, who attracted my attention thirty years ago. Now, when that man wanted to don especial dress to honor a public occasion or a holiday, why he occasionally put on a pair of spectacles. Otherwise the clothing with which God had provided him sufficed. – Mark Twain, 1906
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
QUOTES ABOUT FASHION AND STYLE
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
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. – John Taylor
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? – P.G. Wodehouse
FASHION QUOTES COCO CHANEL
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. – Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. – CoCo Chanel
BEST FASHION QUOTES
I simply can’t understand
Why swimsuits are in such demand
They’re soggy and damp,
Bind like a clamp,
And hold about three pounds of sand!
– D.R. Benson
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville
What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? – Terri Guillemets, “A night at the office,” 1992
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. – Quentin Bell
Stretch pants – the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. – Author Unknown
Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn’t it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn’t wait to take it off you? – Flash Rosenberg
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. – John Ruskin
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Where’s the man could ease a heart
Like a satin gown?
– Dorothy Parker, “The Satin Dress”
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. – Sydney J. Harris
FALL FASHION QUOTES
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. – Madeleine Vionnet
You have to have the kind of body that doesn’t need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. – Carolyn Kenmore
FRIDAY FASHION QUOTES
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. – Jane Austen
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? – George Bernard Shaw
Every uniform corrupts one’s character. – Max Frisch
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. – Douglas William Jerrold
Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn’t. – Bob Morris
Character! do you say—what a long word for a flower! Yes, flowers have a great deal of character, and so have feathers and ribbons, lace and gauze. It is only a slight thread which connects all this with our feelings; but that slender thread is never broken…. thus we shall have in the kingdom of flowers an endless choice of decoration for the head-dress of woman, according to her style, appearance, and age. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875 #accessories
FASHION STYLE QUOTES
It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. – Jean Paul Gaultier
Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she’ll conquer the world. – Marilyn Monroe
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. – James Laver, Style in Costume
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. – Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973
FASHION QUOTES TUMBLR
On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else’s do. – Elizabeth Bowen
For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one. – William Wycherley
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. – Epictetus
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. – Christopher Morley
I don’t know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot. – Marilyn Monroe
Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls;
Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in;
Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
– William Allen Butler, “Nothing to Wear”
FASHION QUOTES FOR INSTAGRAM
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. – Anne Hollander
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. – August Strindberg
It’s not what you wear – it’s how you take it off. – Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane
Fashion Law: If the shoe fits, it’s ugly. – Author Unknown
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach – but not the perfect suit. – Edward Tivnan
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. – Ambrose Bierce
MONDAY FASHION QUOTES
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. – Georg Simmel
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. – Quentin Crisp
To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be “in fashion” could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. – Author Unknown
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize. – Robert Harling, Steel Magnolias
BLACK AND WHITE FASHION QUOTES
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. – Philip Dormer Stanhope
His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor. – Philip Dormer Stanhope
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? – Source Unknown
She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies. – Mavis Gallant
SPRING FASHION QUOTES
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. – Elsa Schiaparelli
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. – Frederick G. Banting
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. – Joseph Addison
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. – Scott Adams
FASHION STATEMENT QUOTES
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, Including: Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark. – Dave Barry
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. – Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,
And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,
That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
– William Allen Butler, “Nothing to Wear”
If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater. – Pam Brown
CUTE FASHION QUOTES
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. – William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819
A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives. – Author Unknown
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. – William Arnot
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me – American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much. – Andrée Putman
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. – Elizabeth Wilson
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. – Edna Woolman Chase
SHORT FASHION QUOTES
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn’t look too strange in the country. – Hardy Amies
A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers. – Helen Lawrenson
Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. – Lynn Lavner
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. – Dorothy Parker
FAMOUS FASHION DESIGNER QUOTES
Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things. – Edgar Rice Burroughs
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes
On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary. – Scott Adams, “Dilbert”
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. – Honoré de Balzac
FASHION ICON QUOTES
He who sleeps in the raw, is in for a nude awakening. – Author Unknown
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. – Jean Cocteau
All women’s dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. – Lin Yutang
QUOTES FROM FASHION DESIGNERS
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — all I hope for in my clothes. – Yves Saint Laurent
I want to die with my blue jeans on. – Andy Warhol
I’m not sure exactly what makes cats purr, but a really comfortable pair of blue jeans, a too-big piece of silky milk chocolate, and a good massage always do the trick for me. – Terri Guillemets, “Purr, purr, purr,” 1993
Nothing is more alluring to a man than a woman who looks good in her jeans. – Nina Garcia
BLACK FASHION QUOTES
Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
Jeans represent democracy in fashion. – Giorgio Armani
The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans… – Fay Weldon
I’m like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear — so I wear jeans. – Cameron Diaz
Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties — they’d wear comfy bluejeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine… – Terri Guillemets
FASHION SHOW QUOTES
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. – Elizabeth Bibesco
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. – Mason Cooley
What a man most enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. – Brendan Francis
Shoes are worth $10 per compliment. – Terri Guillemets, “Savings & goings,” 1996 [On a daily basis, of course, not accumulated! –tg]
QUOTES ABOUT FASHION AND ART
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. – James Laver
Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe. – Benny Hill
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater… suggest that he wear a tail. – Fran Lebowitz
FASHION MODELS QUOTES
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper’s Bazaar while waiting at the dentist’s to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, “Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won’t Be Naked.” – Molly Ivins
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. – Cecil Beaton
Never wear anything that panics the cat. – P.J. O’Rourke
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. – Murray Banks
OSCAR WILDE FASHION QUOTES
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. – Oscar Wilde
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