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"I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls."
"Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later."
"Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that."
"Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult."
"If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman."
"What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections."
"The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit."
"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 tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!"
"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
"It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated."
"Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity."
"I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything."
"Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments."
"The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal."
"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
"I'd love to design bridal dresses."
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
"When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
"Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it."
"Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa."
