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Clothes Quotes

What we wear, buy, and sometimes can't stop buying.

This clothes quotes page leans into the pure pleasure and occasional excess of dressing well, from a tax perk on buying clothes to a closet quite literally overflowing. One quote also compares cultural attitudes toward modesty in clothing between Chinese and American women. See Fashion for the broader style angle.

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked...

Quotes by Maureen Chiquet

My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.

Quotes by Matthew Williamson

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

Quotes by Matthew Hale

For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

Quotes by Matt Smith

When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit before I understood style.

Quotes by Mary-Kate Olsen

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Quotes by Mary Roach

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Quotes by Mary Quant

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

Quotes by Mary Quant

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

Quotes by Mary Quant

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Quotes by Mary Harris Jones

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

Quotes by Martine Syms

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we...

Quotes by Martin Lel

I hate clothes. As soon as I get home every day, I take off as many clothes as possible.

Quotes by Marliece Andrada

I'm going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It's hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don't...

Quotes by Mark Strong

I want to make music for everyone. I'm not trying to start a super exclusive group. I don't want a clique of people where you have to wear a certain type of clothes to come to our shows, or you...

Quotes by Mark Foster

When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own...

Quotes by Maripol

I don't like a tormented photograph. Something attracts you in them, but the attraction isn't because she has a pot on her head or tonnes of make-up and weird clothes and weird everything.

Quotes by Mario Testino

One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear...

Quotes by Marina Warner

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

Quotes by Marina and the Diamonds

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Frequently Asked Questions

What different attitudes toward clothes show up in these quotes?
They range from enjoying a tax-deductible clothing allowance, to loving clothes but hating the shopping process, to a closet overflowing with clothes, to cultural comparisons around modesty. For more on style and fashion sense, see our Fashion quotes.
Is there a quote about a tax-deductible clothing allowance?
Yes — it says, "I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance."
Does one quote admit to loving clothes but hating shopping for them?
Yes. It says, "I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear." For more thoughts specifically on clothing, check our Clothing quotes.
Is there a quote about having too many clothes?
Yes — it says, "Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!" For related quotes about fabric and material, browse our Cloth quotes.
Does one quote compare clothing modesty across cultures?
Yes, it says, "Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh." For more on how people dress and present themselves, see our Clothed quotes.

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