A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.  ~Françoise Sagan

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.  ~William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819

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

What a man most enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.  ~Brendan FrancisCUL

His clothes fit him so ill, and constrain him so much, that he seems rather their prisoner than their proprietor.  ~Philip Dormer StanhopeOPV

When in doubt, wear red.  ~Bill BlassOPV; rdqqjan2002

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie.  Neckties strangle clear thinking.  ~Lin YutangCUL

Clothes are inevitable.  They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.  ~James Laver, Style in Costume

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent.  A person, yes.  ~Robert A. Heinlein

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.  ~William Arnot

Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids.  This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.  ~Scott Adams

To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you.  To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women.  You are not a page out of Vogue.  ~Author Unknown

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.  ~Georg SimmelOPV

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.  ~Lois McMaster Bujold

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant.  They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.  ~Yves Saint Laurent

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.  ~Jean Cocteau

Never wear anything that panics the cat.  ~P.J. O’Rourke

Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.  ~Honoré de BalzacOPV

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?  ~Roland BarthesOPV

Unmentionables – those articles of ladies’ apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads.  ~Changing Times

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.  ~Dorothy Parker

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 would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.  ~Virginia WoolfOPV

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.  ~Lee Mildon

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.  ~Mark Twain

It’s not what you wear – it’s how you take it off.  ~Author Unknown

Every uniform corrupts one’s character.  ~Max FrischOPV

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.  ~Jane AustenOPV

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.  ~Mavis Gallant

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.  ~August StrindbergOPV

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines.  It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.  ~Madeleine VionnetOPV

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition:  it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.  ~Quentin BellOPV

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.  ~Helen LawrensonCUL

Shopping tip:  You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.  ~Author Unknown

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.  ~Frederick G. Banting

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, Letters and Social Aims

I talk to him when I’m lonesome like; and I’m sure he understands.  When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat.  For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that.  ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth

Fashion is like the id.  It makes you desire things you shouldn’t.  ~Bob MorrisOPV

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 tem times more, I should guess,
That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
~William Allen Butler, "Nothing to Wear"

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.  ~Gilda Radner

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.  ~Sydney J. HarrisOPV

Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?  ~P.G. Wodehouse

Fashion can be bought.  Style one must possess.  ~Edna Woolman ChaseOPV

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper’s Bazaar while waiting at the dentist’s to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement.  My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won’t Be Naked."  ~Molly IvinsWL

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

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

What a strange power there is in clothing.  ~Isaac Bashevis SingerOPV

Dress has never been at all a straightforward business:  so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it.  As a topic, it is popular because it is dangerous – it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passions.  On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent:  if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else’s do.  ~Elizabeth BowenOPV

Fashion Law:  If the shoe fits, it’s ugly.  ~Author Unknown

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.  ~Benny Hill

I don’t know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot.  ~Marilyn MonroeOPV

If I were a cat, what would make me purr?  A pair of really comfortable blue jeans, and massages.  ~Cinnamon Stomberger

Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes?  Wouldn’t it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn’t wait to take it off you?  ~Flash RosenbergWL

You don’t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump.  Lace knickers won’t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn’t necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.  ~Elizabeth Bibesco

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!  ~Herman MelvilleOPV

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads – at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.  ~Levende Waters

Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
~Juvenal

Sweater, n.:  garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.  ~Ambrose Bierce