Business Quote by Bill Bryson

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain…

— E. F. Benson

“There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything.…

— Vivienne Westwood

“[W]e took turns removing each other's underwear and I thanked God for twenty-first century clothing. Until you've attempted to undress a Victorian era noblewoman,…

— Gene Doucette

“Soiled overshoes or wet garments should not be worn into any room devoted to the use of ladies.”

— Samuel Roberts Wells

“In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with…

— Jodi Taylor

“Just to be difficult, I kept on my tee and my panties (which thank God, were mocha-colored satin hipsters with a load of beige…

— Kristen Ashley

“She remembered how, as a young man, she had insisted that women must be obedient, chaste, scented, and exquisitely apparelled. "Now I shall have…

— Virginia Woolf

“She went alone to the vast room where the second-hand clothes were kept. Later, she thought it the happiest hour of her life. There…

— Martine Bailey

“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

“She'd been taught that pants were inappropriate for girls because they were immodest [...] If women's pants were suggestive, men's were equally so, and…

— Hillary Jordan

“I loved lingerie. I loved the feel of satin and silk on my skin. I loved the juxtaposition of wearing a pair of two-hundred-dollar…

— Molly Harper