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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

Earl of Chesterfield

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

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5

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare

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6

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

Will Rogers

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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Gloria Steinem

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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

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9

Good clothes open all doors.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

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10

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

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11

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

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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

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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

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14

Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Euripides

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15

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Walter Raleigh

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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Coco Chanel

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17

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

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18

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

Jonathan Swift

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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

Samuel Johnson

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The apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare

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21

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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22

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Earl of Chesterfield

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23

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 mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Virginia Woolf

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24

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

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25

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

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26

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

William Hazlitt

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27

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

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28

Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?

Dorothy Parker

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29

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Angela Carter

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You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Mae West

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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

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

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

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

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Good clothes open all doors.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

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.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

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 mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

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

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.