Dresses Quote by Edith Sitwell

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not…

— Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

— Edith Sitwell

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse.

— Noel Fielding

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you…

— Kathy Lette

I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest…

— Martin Gore

If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to…

— Julian Barnes

“There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.”

— Peter Ackroyd

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies,…

— Natalia Ginzburg

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

— Hermione Gingold

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is…

— Tom Ford

I can't imagine living in a time where us women had to dress like 'ladies' because that is what was expected of us.

— Dawn O'Porter