Wearing A Dress Quotes

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Women, Clothes You Wear

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  A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Eyebrows, Icons

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Views, Clothes, Support

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.361

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• 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 mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Heart, Views

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.67, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Nice, Writing, Cat

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• I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.

  Martha Ronk

  Queens, Eye, Garden

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965). “This Side Of Paradise”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Men, Doors, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the MTV Movie Awards, I was wearing a dress, and that red carpet is outside, and Victoria Justice was going before me on the red carpet. Apparently she's like the biggest star in the world, so everybody was just like 'Victoria! Victoria!' so I am just standing there, and a couple of reporters were just like 'Hello.' And then my skirt just flies up, and I was like 'Take that, Victoria Justice!'

  Molly Tarlov

  Stars, Couple, Awards

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• On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Clothes, Guy

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

  Eddie Izzard

  Dresses, Want, Crosses

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

  Hayley Williams

  Growing Up, Life Lesson, Rock N Roll

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• Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dresses, Want, Matter

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• Um,i'm going shopping for a dress for the Homecoming Dance with Miranda,Wyatt and Leif." Dank chuckled."So,Leif's wearing a dress?

  Abbi Glines

  Shopping, Dresses, Homecoming

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• Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Fashion, Strong, Majority

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• I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

  David Bailey

  Girl, Fashion, Trying

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