"Our dress and grooming should be in keeping with godly principles. We would not think of appearing before a prominent person if we were slovenly dressed or our clothes were too casual. How much more concerned we should be when representing Jehovah in the ﬁeld ministry or on the platform! Our grooming and clothing styles can inﬂuence how others view the worship of Jehovah."

"Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt."

"How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin. That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin."

"She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,— The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in!"

"O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace."

"Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most."

"So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure,— From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,—Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know."

"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."

"Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield."

"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."

"He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors; and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests."

"With silken coats, and caps, and golden rings, With ruffs, and cuffs, and farthingales, and things; With scarfs, and fans, and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery."

"So tedious is this day, As is the night before some festival To an impatient child, that hath new robes, And may not wear them."

"See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring."

"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

"Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes?"

"The soul of this man is his clothes."

"Nobody can tell us Christians how to dress, how to live or how to pray."

"You're born naked. The rest is drag."

"O Prophet! Enjoin your wives, your daughters, and the wives of true believers that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): That is most convenient, that they may be distinguished and not be harassed."

"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their private parts; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their khimār over their breasts and not display their beauty except to their husband, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments."

"The dress should be the setting and not the gem."

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

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

"If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress."

"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."

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

"“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?""

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

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

"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."

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

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

"When in doubt, wear red."

"To a woman, the consciousness of being well-dressed gives a sense of tranquillity which religion fails to bestow."

"When my modiste first tried it on me I asked if she was dressing me for an opera or an operation."

"Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta."

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

"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."

"Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet."

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

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

"La ropa no da ciencia."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Vestis facit virum."