204 Quotes About Clothing

The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)

Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and discover the inside.

Style sets you apart from others. It is your eternal trademark. With style, you are the bona fide owner of your art. No one else creates like you, and you create like no one else.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Même l’élégance efféminée de sa tenue d’équitation ne parvenait pas à dissimuler l’énorme puissance de ce corps

A commune of library employees in Moscow created an "extreme" commune in which all clothing - including undergarments - was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes "it would be characterized as a backslide into darkest capitalism; as prejudice originating in a petit-bourgeois ideology".

Until the sixteenth century, men—priests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many others—wore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quentin Bell. This is still true for men in high positions. After all, can you imagine the Pope, or Professor Dumbledore, wearing trousers? Have you ever seen a depiction of God wearing pants?

I love wearing a well tailored suit. Strutting in my sartorial repute.

It is a traveler’s fallacy that one should shop for clothing while abroad. Those white linen tunics, so elegant in Greece, emerge from the suitcase as mere hippie rags; the beautiful striped shirts of Rome are confined to the closet; and the delicate hand batiks of Bali are first cruise wear, then curtains, then signs of impending madness.