Clothing Quote by Stites Richard

“One might say that, until now, the social, cultural, and political framework for knowledge of the Gulag has not been in place. I first…

— Anne Applebaum

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

— William Penn

Clothing reveals what a character is trying to project as well as what they're giving away about themselves without even realizing it: their socioeconomic…

— Camille Perri

“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body covering. “Proper…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

— Rei Kawakubo

“If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind,…

— Susan Vreeland

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

— Henry George

Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former…

— Luke Harding

Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is…

— Simon Doonan

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at…

— Pope Pius XII