“The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.”
“Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.”
“Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.”
“When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.”
“So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.”
“Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.”
“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''”
“Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.”
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.”
“If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”
“A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.”
“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.”
“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: ''Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?''”
“An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.”
“The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.”
“For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.”