Habits Quote by Anna Lee Huber

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“But the observers were even more surprised by her thigh boots, black breeches, and the red leather corset she wore over a white shirt.…

— Pierre Pevel

“We were locked down tighter than a nun’s thighs, and that’s just how I liked it.”

— Matthew Mather

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“. Designed to look like a breastplate, the corset was trimmed in silver with sections that looked like overlapping plate armor. It fell to…

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

“The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“Lounging indolently in a black silk robe which was loosely tied at the front and which appeared to conceal nothing more than bare skin...she…

— Cathy Williams

“The way she saw it, there were some matters of style that simply needed to take precedence over practicality, and right at the top…

— Julie James

“Michelle Dockery is Mary: There was one scene where I had a corset visible, so it was made for me. After we had filmed…

— Jessica Fellowes

“was just after two in the morning. She hoped that the dress she wore would attract the wrong kind of attention. She wasn’t trying…

— Jonas Saul

“In a short space of time, she had become indispensable, rather like a comfortable grey gown in which one always appears respectable and can…

— Joan Smith

“She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put…

— Gabriel García Márquez