Clothing

"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, or fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has ne'er a shirt on his back."

"We dress more or less the same. I mean, I pay more for my clothes, but they look cheap when I put them on."

"Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new."

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."

"But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!"

"Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone."

"Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?"

"I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

"Do you wish to honor the Body of the Savior? Do not despise it when it is naked. Do not honor it in church with silk vestments while outside it is naked and numb with cold. He who said, “This is my body,” and made it so by his word, is the same that said, “You saw me hungry and you gave me no food. As you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” Honor him then by sharing your property with the poor. For what God needs is not golden chalices but golden souls."

"Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, Where peace and hospitality might reign."

"Not caring, so that sumpter-horse the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, with what coarse, Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul."

"Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast."

"Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best."

"He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency."

"Bhikkhus, this Kassapa is content with any kind of robe, and he speaks in praise of contentment with any kind of robe, and he does not engage in a wrong search, in what is improper, for the sake of a robe. If he does not get a robe he is not agitated, and if he gets one he uses it without being tied to it, uninfatuated with it, not blindly absorbed in it, seeing the danger in it, understanding the escape. ..."

"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."

"They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours."

"A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,—a stocking all the day."

"It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt."

"The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain."

"Vestis facit virum."

"I like those stylish clothes you wear, and I like the way you brush your hair!"

"It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes!"

"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."

"A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse."

"A winning wave, (deserving note). In the tempestuous petticote: A carelesse shooe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility: Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part."

"La ropa no da ciencia."

"After all, there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world."

"Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect."

"Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet."

"The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world."

"One is never over- or underdressed with a little black dress."

"Jogging pants are a sign of defeat. You've lost control of your life, so you go out in jogging pants."

"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."

"Dwellers in huts and in marble halls— From Shepherdess up to Queen— Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls, And nothing for crinoline. But now Simplicity's not the rage, And it's funny to think how cold The dress they wore in the Golden Age Would seem in the Age of Gold."

"A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”"

"Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly."

"“I'm a Catholic girl, so I used to worry I was 'an occasion of sin.' That was the expression if your clothes were too short and someone had lusting thoughts about you—you were 'an occasion of sin.'" "I always worried as a little boy (and still do) that I wasn't 'an occasion of sin.' Will I ever, in my lifetime, be worthy of such a compliment, such a desired reverse state of grace?""

"In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora."