Britain Quote by Angela Carter

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

— Ralph Nader

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were…

— Susan Faludi

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

— Manolo Blahnik

Sexual underwear is tacky.

— Izabella Scorupco

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

— Natalie Massenet

“From the same Badiou piece: Strange is the rage reserved by so many feminist ladies for the few girls wearing the hijab. They have…

— Nina Power

“Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their…

— Bill Bryson

“You ladies ought to know-going commando? That’s sexier than leather and lace and whips and chains all put together.”

— Emma Chase

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

— James Laver

Women who don't wear underwear never get their panties in a bunch

— Anonymous

“The fact that (respectable) women began to wear ‘attractive’ nightwear only after the introduction, in the early eighties of last century, of the practice…

— C. Willett Cunnington