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  Johann Kaspar Lavater

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• As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened and dropping to the floor. Fog came unpinned like hair. On the beach cliffs, great colonies of datura - jimson weed - with their white trumpet flowers, looked like brass bands.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Weed, Beach, Flower

  Gretel Ehrlich (1994). “A match to the heart”, Pantheon

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• God said,--"Let there be light!"
  Grim darkness felt His might,
  And fled away;
  Then startled seas and mountains cold
  Shone forth, all bright in blue and gold,
  And cried--"'Tis day! 'tis day!"
  "Hail, holy light!" exclaim'd
  The thunderous cloud that flam'd
  O'er daisies white;
  And lo! the rose, in crimson dress'd,
  Lean'd sweetly on the lily's breast;
  And blushing murmur'd--Light!

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Clouds, Light, Blue

  Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Want, Littles, Little Women

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• the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

  Susan Faludi

  Winning, Simple, Effort

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony.

  Helen Nielsen

  Sex, Men, Dating

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• I speak as your native guide to the mysterious tribe called the English. Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, you can pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel and you won't be pilloried -- as long as you never, ever wear linen with tweed.

  Kathy Lette

  Long, Dress Code, Cards

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Foetal Attraction”, p.48, Random House

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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• One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Change, Yellow, Red

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• A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

  Linda Grant

  New Beginnings, Body, Women's Bodies

  Linda Grant (2008). “The Clothes On Their Backs: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Hair, Long

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• I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

  Nell Carter

  Marriage, Thinking, Disease

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• When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

  Tina Fey

  Men, Halfway There, Play

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• There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Beautiful, Women, Clothes

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• Frenchwomen could not dress like Englishwomen without conviction of sin.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sin, Conviction

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

  Edith Head

  Men, Clothes, Before Marriage

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Beauty, Squad, Work Out

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.19, Penguin

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• Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.

  Alison Lurie

  Travel, Zoos, Animal

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• it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Strong, White

  Myrtle Reed (1902). “Lavender and Old Lace”

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• We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Home, Quality, Eating

  Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

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• He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Flower, Thinking

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• A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fashion, Heart, Shoes

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Important

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• A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Wells

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• Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Pigs, Eyelashes, Style

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