The dress should be the setting and not the gem. ~Helen PotterWhen in doubt, wear red. ~Bill Blass
Clothing is material used to cover parts of the human body for protection against the environment, for comfort and bodymodesty, and as personal decoration ("fashion"), often reflecting religious, cultural, and social customs.Clothes are individual articles of clothing (although the term is always used in plural form).
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, or fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has ne'er a shirt on his back.
Tom Brown,Laconics; or, New Maxims of State and Conversation (London: Thomas Hodgson, 1701), Part III, § XLVI, p. 100.
We dress more or less the same. I mean, I pay more for my clothes, but they look cheap when I put them on.
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments? ~ John Calvin
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
John CalvinGolden Booklet of the True Christian Life pg. 85.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.Fashion
Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, “This is my body,” and made it so by his word, is the same that said, “You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls.
Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign.
John Fletcher,The Honest Man's Fortune (c. 1613; published 1647), Act V, scene 3, line 170.
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Phineas Fletcher,Sicelides: A Piscatory (1631), Act II, scene 4.
He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.
Bhikkhus, thisKassapa is content with any kind of robe, and he speaks in praise of contentment with any kind of robe, and he does not engage in a wrong search, in what is improper, for the sake of a robe. ~Gautama Buddha And theeyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they werenaked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. ~ Genesis 3:7 (KJV)
Bhikkhus, thisKassapa is content with any kind of robe, and he speaks in praise of contentment with any kind of robe, and he does not engage in a wrong search, in what is improper, for the sake of a robe. If he does not get a robe he is not agitated, and if he gets one he uses it without being tied to it, uninfatuated with it, not blindly absorbed in it, seeing the danger in it, understanding the escape. ...
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine Hepburn, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder", line 1, inHesperides (1648), reprinted inThe Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, ed.F. W. Moorman (Oxford University Press, 1921), p. 28.
A winning wave, (deserving note). In the tempestuous petticote: A carelesse shooe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility: Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder", line 9, inHesperides (1648), reprinted inThe Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, ed.F. W. Moorman (Oxford University Press, 1921), p. 28.
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
Alicia Keys, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
One is never over- or underdressed with a little black dress.
Karl Lagerfeld, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
Jogging pants are a sign of defeat. You've lost control of your life, so you go out in jogging pants.
Karl Lagerfeld,The World According to Karl (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2016), p. 56.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
Dwellers in huts and in marble halls— From Shepherdess up to Queen— Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls, And nothing for crinoline. But now Simplicity'snot the rage, And it's funny to think how cold The dress they wore in the Golden Age Would seem in the Age of Gold.
Henry Sambrooke Leigh, "The Two Ages", Stanza 4, inCarols of Cockayne (London: John Camden Hotten, 1869), p. 28.
A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
Sophia Loren, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
I'm a Catholicgirl, so I used toworry I was 'an occasion of sin.' That was the expression if yourclothes were too short and someone hadlustingthoughts about you—you were 'an occasion of sin.' ~Patty McCormack
“I'm a Catholicgirl, so I used toworry I was 'an occasion of sin.' That was the expression if yourclothes were too short and someone hadlustingthoughts about you—you were 'an occasion of sin.'" "I always worried as a littleboy (and still do) that Iwasn't 'an occasion of sin.' Will I ever, in my lifetime, beworthy of such acompliment, such adesired reverse state ofgrace?"
O Prophet! Enjoin yourwives, yourdaughters, and the wives of true believers that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): That is most convenient, that they may be distinguished and not be harassed. ~ Quran 33:59And say to the believingwomen .. that they should draw their khimār over their breasts and not display their beauty ~ Quran 24:31
And say to the believingwomen that they should lower theirgaze and guard their private parts; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their khimār over their breasts and not display their beauty except to their husband, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments.
O Prophet! Enjoin yourwives, yourdaughters, and the wives of true believers that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): That is most convenient, that they may be distinguished and not be harassed.
With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings, With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things; With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure,— From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,—Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
Francis Thompson, "Gilded Gold", line 24, inPoems (Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893), p. 17.
Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin. That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin.
Edward Young,Love of Fame (1725–28), Satire IV, line 119.
Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
Edward Young,To Mr. Pope (1730), Epistle I, line 283.
Our dress and grooming should be in keeping with godly principles. We would not think of appearing before a prominent person if we were slovenly dressed or our clothes were too casual. How much more concerned we should be when representing Jehovah in the field ministry or on the platform! Our grooming and clothing styles can influence how others view the worship of Jehovah.
"Organized to Do Jehovah's Will".Watch Tower Society. 2015. p.134
Kleiden machen Leute: nicht Leute von Verstand.
English: Clothes make the man, but not the man of sense.
Quoted inWeston, Stephen (1824). "Pecularities of the German". The Englishman Abroad, in Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. Oxford University. pp. page 101. Retrieved on2008-03-13.
I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
Vanna White in: Laura K. McClure (2008),Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World. p. 164
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
A vest as admir'd Voltiger had on, Which from this island's foes his grandsire won; Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Oblig'd to triumph in this legacy.
Edward Howard,The British Princes (London: H. Herringman, 1669), p. 96. See also Boswell,Life of Johnson (1769). European Mag., April, 1792. Steele, in the Spectator. The lines are thought to be a forgery of William Henry Ireland's.
A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.
Attributed to SirRichard Blackmore. (Not in Works). Probably a parody of above.
They were attempting to put on Raiment from naked bodies won.
Matthew Green,The Spleen. Lines called out by Blackmore's parody.
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Ben Jonson,Epicæne; or, The Silent Woman, Act I, scene 1. (Song). Translation from Bonnefonius. First part an imitation of Petronius,Satyricon.
Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers.
He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree: Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe, Man, take thine old cloake about thee.
Thomas Percy,Religues,Take thy Old Cloake about Thee.
My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!) An horrid chasm disclosed.
Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old grey coat, All buttoned down before.
Rupert Simms, at beginning of list of John Tredgortha's works inBibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894).
Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung deftly round her head Fell carelessly behind.
Terence,Self-Tormentor, Act II, scene 2. F. W. Ricord's translation.
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