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Quote by Virginia Woolf
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity — all I hope for in my clothes. – Yves Saint Laurent

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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. – Françoise Sagan

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