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Quotes about Dress
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“Good clothes open all doors.”
“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
“The apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“I dress for women and I undress for men.”
“They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.”
“From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.”
“Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?”
“Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.”
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”
“Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
“Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.”
“No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.”
“You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.”
“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.”
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.”
“Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.”
“There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.”
“You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.”
“The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.”
“Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.”
“Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.”
“Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”
“When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.”
“So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.”
“Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.”
“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''”