#cloth

Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't decide if this was a deliberate fashion choice or whether it was physically impossible for any color to escape from the gravitational pull of her dark and bitter personality. ↗

— Bob Smith

#black-clothing #humor #humor

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. You could wear, once more, your own life in all its stages, from whatever they wrapped you in when you emerged from the dark red naked warmth of the womb to your deathbed. ↗

— Linda Grant

#fashion #life #life

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. ↗

— George Eliot

#dignity #life

You? A man? Wants to come shopping with a woman? For clothes?” “Ah, but not for clothes, not for skirts or shoes.” He shuddered. “For lingerie. And that, my love, is a whole different story. Any time you want to shop for silky underwear, I’ll gladly accompany you. ↗

— Lauren Dane

#shopping #love

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #seduction #sex #women #love

لا يعني الزي شيئا إذا لم يكن يوحي للرجال بنزعه من عليك. ↗

— فرانسواز ساجان

#love #men #love

Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error… ↗

— Tasha Tudor

#femininity #womanhood #love

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. ↗

— Mark Lawrence

#clothes #die #empire #king #little

Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean. ↗

— Lisa Samson

#clothing #fashion #faux-pax #men #men

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#enterprise #life #new-clothes #old-clothes #life