Fashion Quote by Michael Chabon

“The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.”

— Wilkie Collins

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“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

“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

“Material goods, gold and fine clothes are of scant concern to her; she likes to lead her life as people in olden times instructed.”

— Shin Jae

“She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were as neat…

— Charles Dickens

“She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.”

— Anonymous

“Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of…

— Marie Rutkoski

“In her hometown, she seems like someone else; maybe more like the person she used to be, like the person we all leave behind…

— Dave Besseling

“was just after two in the morning. She hoped that the dress she wore would attract the wrong kind of attention. She wasn’t trying…

— Jonas Saul

“She bought all new underwear. She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.”

— John Steinbeck

“All the pedantry of her daily toil slipped away like a cumbrous garment; she was clad only in her womanhood.”

— George Gissing