Clothes Quotes

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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. — Lord Chesterfield
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. — Samuel Johnson
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. — Mark Twain
Modesty died when clothes were born. — Mark Twain
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the… — William Hazlitt
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I come from grunge, and then Brit-pop, scenes where you boast about how little you spent on an outfit. ... Now, it seems you must… — Caitlin Moran
Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe. — Lord Byron
In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look… — David Bowie
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still. — Oscar Wilde
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. — Thorstein Veblen
One should always dress like a marble column. — Jackie Kennedy
The soul of this man is his clothes. — William Shakespeare
The apparel oft proclaims the man. — William Shakespeare
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our… — Caitlin Moran
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a… — William Ralph Inge

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