quotations about clothes
This metaphorical quality of clothes, their ability to stand for something other than what they are, is characteristic of all symbols.
HUGH DALZIEL DUNCAN
Communications & Social Order
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.
LINDA GRANT
The Thoughtful Dresser
Clothes are like an extension of our bodies, an outer skin, and so the day-in, day-outers find it reassuring to stick to the same outfit.
NAOKI HIGASHIDA
The Reason I Jump
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off.
FRANÇOISE SAGAN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Orlando
Clothes are given meaning in the fashion system by the aesthetics of design, the mechanics of production and the inducements of consumption. But the engagement of the wearer with the garment such that they become part of each other, also gives clothes meaning.
TIM DANT
Material Culture In The Social World
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
New Woman, 1991
He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Epigrams
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Obsessed by Dress
One is never over- or underdressed with a little black dress.
KARL LAGERFELD
Elle, 2007
Oh, Saturday night
Mmm, everyone's having fun
I'm down at the laundromat
Trying to get my washing done
Like I done before
Time and time again
Watching the clothes go 'round
THE PRETENDERS
"Watching the Clothes"
I find people better looking without clothes than with clothes. You can go to a gym and go to a steam room and you see someone and think, He's really handsome. Then he puts on his clothes. Some weird pants. A thumb ring. Some weird socks. And it's gone!
TOM FORD
Vanity Fair, Mar. 2006
Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Fireside Travels
I wanna fold clothes for you
I wanna make you feel good
Baby I wanna do the right thing
Feels so much better than the wrong thing
J. COLE
"Foldin Clothes", 4 Your Eyez Only
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Polite Conversation
If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze.
KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS
Wages of Love
Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.
MARC JACOBS
attributed, The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
PHINEAS FLETCHER
Sicelides