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covering worn on the body
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Clothing is material used to cover parts of the human body for protection against the environment, for comfort and body modesty, and as personal decoration ("fashion"), often reflecting religious, cultural, and social customs. Clothes are individual articles of clothing (although the term is always used in plural form).

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  • Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.
    • Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
    • Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516), XX. 116.
  • When in doubt, wear red.
    • Bill Blass Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.

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Man's secret horror of his foot is one of the explanations for the tendency to conceal its length and form as much as possible. Heels of greater or lesser height, depending on the sex, distract from the foot's low and flat character. Besides the uneasiness is often confused with a sexual uneasiness; this is especially striking among the Chinese who, after having atrophied the feet of women, situate them at the most excessive point of deviance. The husband himself must not see the nude feet of his wife, and it is incorrect and immoral in general to look at the feet of women. ~ Georges Bataille
 
On the other hand, modesty concerning feet developed excessively in the modern era and only started to disappear in the nineteenth century. M. Salomon Reinarch has studied this development in detail in the article entitled Pieds pudiques [Modest Feet], insisting on the role of Spain, where women's feet have been the object of most dreaded anxiety and thus were the cause of crimes. The simple fact of allowing the shod foot to be seen, jutting up from under a skirt, was regarded as indecent. Under no circumstances was it possible to touch the foot of a woman. ~ Georges Bataille
  • Man's secret horror of his foot is one of the explanations for the tendency to conceal its length and form as much as possible. Heels of greater or lesser height, depending on the sex, distract from the foot's low and flat character. Besides the uneasiness is often confused with a sexual uneasiness; this is especially striking among the Chinese who, after having atrophied the feet of women, situate them at the most excessive point of deviance. The husband himself must not see the nude feet of his wife, and it is incorrect and immoral in general to look at the feet of women. Catholic confessors, adapting themselves to this aberration, ask their Chinese penitents "if they have not looked at women's feet."
  • On the other hand, modesty concerning feet developed excessively in the modern era and only started to disappear in the nineteenth century. M. Salomon Reinarch has studied this development in detail in the article entitled Pieds pudiques [Modest Feet], insisting on the role of Spain, where women's feet have been the object of most dreaded anxiety and thus were the cause of crimes. The simple fact of allowing the shod foot to be seen, jutting up from under a skirt, was regarded as indecent. Under no circumstances was it possible to touch the foot of a woman.
  • Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
  • His locked, lettered, braw brass collar,
    Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
  • And said to myself, as I lit my cigar,
    "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar
    Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,
    On the whole do you think he would have much to spare
    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"
  • 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!
  • Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls.
    Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
    Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,
    Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
    Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;
    All of them different in color and shape.
    Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,
    Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,
    Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.
  • Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square,
    Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
    And her father assures me each time she was there
    That she and her friend Mrs. Harris
    * * * * * *
    Spent six consecutive weeks, without stopping
    In one continuous round of shopping,—
    * * * * * *
    And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day
    This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,
    This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square
    The last time we met was in utter despair
    Because she had nothing whatever to wear.
  • Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
    And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.
    • Lord Byron, The Corsair (1814), Canto II, Stanza 3.

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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments? ~ John Calvin
  • Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
    • John Calvin Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life pg. 85.
  • 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.
    • Coco Chanel, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  • Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
    • Coco Chanel, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.Fashion
  • 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.

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He is not a monk just because he lives on others' alms. Not by adopting outward form does one become a true monk. Whoever here (in the Dispensation) lives a holy life, transcending both merit and demerit, and walks with understanding in this world — he is truly called a monk. ~ Dhammapada
  • He is not a monk just because he lives on others' alms. Not by adopting outward form does one become a true monk. Whoever here (in the Dispensation) lives a holy life, transcending both merit and demerit, and walks with understanding in this world — he is truly called a monk.
    • Buddharakkhita, Acharya. "Dhammapada XIX — Dhammatthavagga: The Just". Access To Insight.

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  • Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
    • John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune (c. 1613; published 1647), Act V, scene 3, line 170.

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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. ~ Gautama Buddha
 
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. ~ Genesis 3:7 (KJV)

  • 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. ...

    Therefore, bhikkhus, you should train yourselves thus: ‘We will be content with any kind of robe, and we will speak in praise of contentment with any kind of robe, and we will not engage in a wrong search, in what is improper, for the sake of a robe. If we do not get a robe we will not be agitated, and if we get one we will use 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.
    • Genesis 3:7 (KJV)
  • 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.
    • Oliver Goldsmith, description of an Author's Bedchamber, in Citizen of the World, Letter 30. The Author's Club. (1760).
  • 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.

H edit

  • I like those stylish clothes you wear, and I like the way you brush your hair!
  • I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
    • Katherine Hepburn Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.

J edit

  • Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
  • Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.

K edit

  • 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.
    • Alicia Keys, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.

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  • One is never over- or underdressed with a little black dress.
    • Karl Lagerfeld Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  • Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
    • Karl Lagerfeld Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  • Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
    • Yves Saint Laurent, Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  • A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
    • Sophia Loren Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  • Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

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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.' ~ Patty McCormack
  • It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
    • L.M. Montgomery, Gaille, Brandon (July 23, 2013). "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  • If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.
    • Kate Moss Arneson, Krystin; Gustashaw, Megan (2011). "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time". Glamour. Retrieved January 22, 2013.

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  • Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

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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. ~ Quran 33:59
 
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. ~ Quran 24:31
  • 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.
  • O wives of prophet! You are not like other women; if you want to be righteous do not be too soft to make those in whose heart a disease hopeful; and speak in recognised manner. And stay in your homes and make not a dazzling display like that of the former times of ignorance and offer prayer and pay zakah; and obey God and His messenger; o people of (Prophet’s) house! God wants to remove impurity from you and make you clean and pure.
  • O believers! Do not enter in houses of prophet except if you are permitted for a meal and its readiness is not awaited but when you are invited then enter and when you have eaten disperse and do not linger in conversation; it troubles the prophet and he is shy of you but God is not shy of telling truth; and when ye ask of them [the wives of the Prophet] anything, ask it of them from behind a curtain (hijab) it is purer for you hearts and their hearts; and it is not allowed for you to hurt messenger or marry his wives after him ever; indeed it is great enormity in God’s sight.
  • 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.

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  • You're born naked. The rest is drag.
    • RuPaul quoted in Queer Quotes: On Coming Out and Culture, Love and Lust, Politics and Pride, and Much More, Teresa Theophano, ed. (2004)

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  • Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
    But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
    For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors; and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests.
  • 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.
  • She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.

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  • 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.
  • She's adorned
    Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,—
    The truest mirror that an honest wife
    Can see her beauty in!
    • John Tobin, The Honeymoon (1770), Act III, scene 4.

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  • 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.
    • Edward Young, Love of Fame (1725–28), Satire IV, line 119.
  • Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
    And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
  • Vestis facit virum.
    • English: Clothes make the man.
    • Latin proverb, unidentfied origin
    • Quoted in Halyard, Ned (1849). "The Owners". Sea Songs, Tales, Etc.. Palmer & Hoby. pp. page 263. Retrieved on 2008-03-13. 
  • O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,
    But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,
    And heightens ease with grace.

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  • 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. It would certainly not be fitting to be immodest or inconsiderate of others. (Mic. 6:8; 1 Cor. 10:31-33; 1 Tim. 2:9, 10) Hence, when we are getting ready to go in service or to go to congregation meetings, circuit assemblies, or conventions, we should have in mind what the Scriptures say about physical cleanliness and modest appearance. We always want to honor and glorify Jehovah.
    • "Organized to Do Jehovah's Will". Watch Tower Society. 2015. p.134
  • Kleiden machen Leute: nicht Leute von Verstand.
    • English: Clothes make the man, but not the man of sense.
    • German proverb, unidentfied origin
    • Quoted in Weston, Stephen (1824). "Pecularities of the German". The Englishman Abroad, in Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. Oxford University. pp. page 101. Retrieved on 2008-03-13. 
  • I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
    • Vanna White in: Laura K. McClure (2008), Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World. p. 164
  • 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.
  • When my modiste first tried it on me I asked if she was dressing me for an opera or an operation.
    • Nora Bayes, commenting on the gasps of friends over an extremely décolleté dress
    • Samuels, Charles and Louise (1974). Once upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville. Cornwall, NY: Cornwall Press. pp. page 87. ISBN 0-396-07030-2. 
    • Décolletage is a low neckline on a woman's dress, designed to emphasize but not quite reveal a woman's breasts.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations edit

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 31-33.
  • To a woman, the consciousness of being well dressed gives a sense of tranquillity which religion fails to bestow.
  • To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.
  • Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
  • Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,
    We ne'er shall see him 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 Rose. Song referred to in Walton's Compleat Angler, Part I, Chapter II.
  • 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.
    • To the memory of John Lee, who died May 21, 1823. An inscription in Matherne Churchyard.
  • A sweet disorder in the dresse
    Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
  • A winning wave, (deserving note).
    In the tempestuous petticote,
    A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
    I see a wilde civility,—
    Doe more bewitch me than when art
    Is too precise in every part.
  • It is not linen you're wearing out,
    But human creatures' lives.
  • A vest as admired Voltiger had on,
    Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
    Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,
    Obliged to triumph in this legacy.
    • Edward Howard, The British Princes (1669), p. 96. See also Boswell, Life of Johnson (1769). European Mag., April, 1792. Steele, in the Spectator. The lines are thought to be a forgery of William Henry Ireland's.
  • A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on,
    Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.
    • Attributed to Sir Richard Blackmore. (Not in Works). Probably a parody of above.
  • They were attempting to put on
    Raiment from naked bodies won.
    • Matthew Green, The Spleen. Lines called out by Blackmore's parody.
  • After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
  • 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.
    • Ben Jonson, Epicæne; or, The Silent Woman, Act I, scene 1. (Song). Translation from Bonnefonius. First part an imitation of Petronius, Satyricon.
  • 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.
  • Neat, not gaudy.
  • 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.
  • Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
    Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
    Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.
  • 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.
  • Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
    Emblem right meet of decency does yield.
  • 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.
    • Rupert Simms, at beginning of list of John Tredgortha's works in Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894).
  • 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.
    • Terence, Self-Tormentor, Act II, scene 2. F. W. Ricord's translation.
  • 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.
  • La ropa no da ciencia.

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