Quotations about Clothing

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. 

Henry David Thoreau

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.  

Henry David Thoreau

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie.  Neckties strangle clear thinking.  

Lin Yutang

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed.  There ain't much credit in that.  

Charles Dickens

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.  

Will Rogers

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.  

Levende Waters

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?  

P.G. Wodehouse

Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes?  Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?  

Flash Rosenberg

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

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.  

Jane Austen

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.  

Douglas William Jerrold

Clothes are inevitable.  They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.  

James Laver

For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.  

William Wycherley

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. 

August Strindberg

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. 

Philip Dormer Stanhope

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.  

Mavis Gallant

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. 

 Joseph Addison

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. 

William Hazlitt

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.  

William Arnot

A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private. 

Elizabeth Wilson

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.  

Helen Lawrenson

What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.  

Brendan Francis