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“Don't allow yourself to get into the habit of dressing carelessly when there is 'only' your husband to see you. Depend upon it he has no use for faded tea-gowns and badly dressed hair, and he abhor...”
“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
“Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.”
“It's like the old question, "Do you lock your house to keep people out, or to protect what's inside?" Should a person act modestly and dress modestly in order to prevent intrusion from the outside,...”
“A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her sha...”
“Charles went to kiss her shoulder.-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.”
“I would rather wear a suit everyday and be respected than dress half naked and be disrespected.”
“Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian.""So I should burn everything to a crisp?""Well, that would definitely get your mother's attention, but I think that she's looking for som...”
“She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
“I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.”
“If there was a dress that could make a fashion-appreciative girl out of me, this was it. The colors shimmered from gunmetal to pewter, reminding me of frost on the hedgerows where the light caught....”
“I think this dress will stun the nobility, and leave them stupefied with envy and lust," Madame Sandrine announced with relish."I'm just glad it's not crimson, like everything else you drape," Fara...”
“Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.”
“It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walked away through the tables in the caf, your figure, your dress, that I still see.”
“Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.”
“I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that.”
“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me...”
“When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'”
“I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk d...”
“A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.”
