Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old clothing quotes, clothing sayings, and clothing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
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
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.Tom Ford
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The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.Madeleine Vionnet
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Clothing is ultimately the suit of armor in which we battle the world.Sophia Amoruso
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He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.Mark Twain
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Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.Elsa Schiaparelli
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Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.James Laver
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The joy of dressing is an art.John Galliano
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.Quentin Bell
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Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.Marc Jacobs
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Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.James Laver
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A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.Laurence Sterne
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Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.Michael Kors
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Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.Chad Hurley
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.Arthur Ashe
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Your clothes should be as important as your skin.Amit Kalantri
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.Francoise Sagan
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Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.Jean-Paul Gaultier
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Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.Anne Hollander
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The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.Mark Twain
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Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.Elie Tahari
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Clothing is the first step to building a character.Sylvester Stallone
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Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguingAlexander Wang
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.Jane Austen
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Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Clothes therefore, must be truly a badge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things.Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A woman's dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.Sophia Loren
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Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.Brandon Sanderson
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There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.Noel Streatfeild
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What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.Miuccia Prada
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.Mark Twain
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Clothing doesn't lie, it shows everything.Yohji Yamamoto
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Your clothing is the most important survival tool you have. Dress properly and any emergency you may have to endure becomes more manageable.Mors Kochanski
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Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.Herbert Harold Vreeland
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When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.Isabel Wolff
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.Oscar Wilde
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.Vera Wang
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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst — you need them both.Karl Lagerfeld
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A dress not worn wears itself out.American Proverb
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Dress makes the man.French Proverb
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Sometimes a garment will trigger a whole new concept of who the character is.Kristi Zea
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I owe a lot of my performance to the corset I had to wear...the blood rushes to your face. So that explains 'radiant.'Emma Thompson
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We can invest the clothing of a character with the capacity to reflect the character's mood. Always remember that clothing can 'act,' too.Shamus Culhane
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I prefer to play parts where I can wear old clothes...So when I am comfortable I act more natural. It's the same when I'm 'wearing' a part that fits me, comfortable.Gary Cooper
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It cannot be denied that clothes in period pictures do affect the modes of the moment.Lilian Churchill
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What I am must make you forget what I wear.Thoreau
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.Thoreau
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.Henry David Thoreau
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Clothing is a means of characterization. In short, each character has a style of his own in everything he does.Vivienne Westwood
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I'm fat, and I sweat a lot and I don't want to ruin all my clothes.Don Haskins
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Beware false prophets come to you in wolf's clothing but inwardly are sheep.Soren Kierkegaard
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One of the chief faults of modern dress is that it is composed of far too many articles of clothing, most of which are the wrong substance.Oscar Wilde
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One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.Karl Lagerfeld
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You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.Edith Head
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I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.Carrie Bradshaw
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I don't design clothes. I design dreams.Ralph Lauren
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The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.Hubert de Givenchy
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I want people to see the dress but focus on the woman.Vera Wang
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How can anyone be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs? After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.Thomas More
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Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.Karl Lagerfeld
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Some victories are merely defeated wearing the wrong clothing.Kiersten White
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You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.Steven Tyler
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If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze.Kamala Surraiya Das
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Wearing clothes we feel good in can help us maintain a positive outlook by increasing our self-acceptance and self-confidence.Cindy Ann Peterson
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I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.Ricky Gervais
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Good clothing is a passport to happiness.Yves Saint Laurent