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  • To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

    Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1829). “The Tatler and the Guardian: Complete in One Volume, with Notes, and a General Index”, p.388
  • Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

    Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
  • Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

    "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.
  • Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

    Nature   Holiday   Nymphs  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press
  • You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

    Party   Jeans   Events  
    "A New (Six-Foot-Ten) New Yorker Takes on Fashion Week" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2010.
  • I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

    Music   I Hate You   Band  
    FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Oct 20, 2010
  • When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.

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

    Fashion   Women   Clothes  
    Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”
  • In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

    Love   Life   Peace  
    The Lay of the Last Minstrel canto 3, st. 2 (1805)
  • There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

  • The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

    Running   Men   Squares  
    Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”
  • Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

    Men   Doubt   Phrases  
    John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.462
  • The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

    Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

    Sunday   Clothes   People  
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1720, Random House
  • When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

    Fire   Land   Purple  
    Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”
  • Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

    Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.
  • Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

    Night   Rainbow   Vampire  
    FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014
  • Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.

  • Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

  • Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

    Beach   War   Men  
    Geoffrey Perret (1982). “America in the twenties: a history”, Simon & Schuster
  • The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

    Health   Style   Female  
  • Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

    Children   Husband   Crow  
  • O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

    Men   Sight   Clothes  
    George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.132
  • Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.

  • ... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

  • We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

    Shining   Soul   Doe  
    William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)
  • A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.

    Girl   Book   Boys  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics
  • Think about it. These guys have far more reasons to pull a prank on Doug than they do me. I kind of wished we had changed clothes, though.' 'There wasn't time,' Katie said. 'Your true love is in desperate need of your assistance. How can you think of changing into the appropriate attire for a rescue?

  • Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

    H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.

    Believe   Boys   Doors  
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