Broadway Quote by Karen Abbott

In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

The low-ceiling price bazaar for sexual relief was a street called Middie Alley. You could barely get a pushcart through this avenue. Top price-twenty-five…

— W. C. Fields

The thing with 'The Bachelorette' is that money didn't exist... all the clothes were able to be tailored.

— Gabby Windey

It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often…

— Karen Abbott

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses.…

— Jason Wu

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque,…

— Dita Von Teese

In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they…

— Gene Kelly

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

— Dorothy Parker

“Susannah Buxton, costume designer: These three dresses demonstrate well the different ways in which we brought the costumes together for the show. Mary's dress…

— Jessica Fellowes

I'm setting up a record label and a music charity and website and I'm also doing a vintage clothes shop with my sister, it's…

— Lily Allen

Gypsy [Rose Lee], who was called Louise as a kid, gave her first performances here with her sister [June Hovac], playing for the local…

— Karen Abbott

We spend so much money on these dresses that are terrible. And what do we get out of it? Nothing - a piece of…

— Chelsea Handler