Stretch pants – the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. – Author Unknown
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. – John Ruskin
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. – Sydney J. Harris
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle
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
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? – George Bernard Shaw
A handsome shoe often pinches the foot. – French proverb
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. – James Laver, Style in Costume
She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. – Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973
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
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. – Epictetus
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. – Christopher Morley
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. – Oscar Wilde
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
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
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. – CoCo Chanel
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane
Like every good man, I strive for perfection, and, like every ordinary man, I have found that perfection is out of reach – but not the perfect suit. – Edward Tivnan
