"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Kleiden machen Leute: nicht Leute von Verstand."

"I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll."

"Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us."

"Thus, there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them."

"Old Grimes is dead; that good old man We never shall see more; He used to wear a long black coat, All button'd down before."

"Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old blue coat All buttoned down before."

"Old Abram Brown is dead and gone,— You'll never see him more; He used to wear a long brown coat That buttoned down before."

"John Lee is dead, that good old man,— We ne'er shall see him more: He used to wear an old drab coat All buttoned down before."

"It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives."

"A vest as admir'd Voltiger had on, Which from this island's foes his grandsire won; Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye, Oblig'd to triumph in this legacy."

"A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won."

"Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound."

"Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers, What hides the body oft the mind discovers."

"Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet."

"When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years."

"He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree: Itt's pride that putts the countrye downe, Man, take thine old cloake about thee."

"My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!) An horrid chasm disclosed."

"May I take off clothes covering shame at the border leaving them hanging on dry trees of arrogance and run by wearing the rays of the sun."

"Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old grey coat, All buttoned down before."

"Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung deftly round her head Fell carelessly behind."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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. ..."