Arctic Quote by Dan simmons

“After searching for it uselessly in the taste of the earth, in the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed of her…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“At the heart of the crowd walked a girl with merry eyes, a floating violet in a sea of cut-velvet and silk hose, cloth-of-silver…

— Katherine Arden

“The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. “These fashions have come round…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My…

— Liane de Pougy

“The irritation she displayed as she dealt with the heavy fabric made me smile. My lady had become accustomed to the freedom of men’s…

— Christina Boyd

“but there was something so significant about being able to make a gorgeous item of clothing from almost raw materials. It gave her a…

— Kate Jacobs

“After he left the house, she dried her hair and dressed in a pair of old, comfortable jeans and a white hoodie. Ordinarily, she'd…

— Kristen Hannah

“(Hadley and Mary in the carriage) “Might I repeat how utterly charming you look?” “You are very kind,” she replied, down casting her eyes…

— Victoria Vane

“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