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This shirt is dry clean only, which means it's dirty. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999I especially hate turtlenecks. Like wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999
The apparel oft proclaims the man. — William Shakespeare · 1616The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. — William Shakespeare · 1600
The costume of woman... Should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness... While it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance. — Amelia Jenks Bloomer · 1857
The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. — C.F. Forbes · 1875
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I like my money right where I can see it-hanging in my closet. — Carrie · 2003
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Oh, I like your outfit too, except when I dress up as a frigid bitch, I try not to look so constipated. — Elle Woods · 2001
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Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is "Who am I going to be today?" — Fay Weldon · 1995
How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants. — Frank (Once Upon a Time in the West) · 1968
You look a little older without your clothes on. — George Bailey · 1946
Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded. — George Orwell · 1933
If I saw myself in clothes like those, I'd have to kick my own ass. — Happy Gilmore · 1996
It's after six. What am I, a farmer? — Jack Donaghy · 2006
You know the message you're sending out to the world with these sweatpants? You're telling the world, "I give up. I can't compete in normal society. I'm miserable, so I might as well be comfortable." — Jerry Seinfeld · 1989
Slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." — John Wesley · 1788
I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable. — Justin Timberlake · 2004
Keep your clothes neat and tidy; it gives you self-confidence and composure in your bearings. — Leo Tolstoy · 1854
I don't design clothes, I design dreams. — Ralph Lauren · 1986