Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
wallace stevensWhenever Auntie moves around, Her dresses make a curious sound; They trail behind her up the floor, And trundle after through the door.
Robert Louis StevensonThere is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
coco chanelFashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
coco chanelYielding more wholesome food than all the messesThat now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
guillaume de salluste du bartasYesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you.
eddie mairAll women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
lin yutangHerbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
john miltonIf faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
Alexander PopeWell, a guy who dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.
Bruce WayneOf herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
john miltonThe carpenter dresses his plank the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.
walt whitmandresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in, dresses in which to do nothing at all; dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall; All of them different in color and shape. Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape, Brocade and broadcloth, and other material, Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.
william allen butlerThe idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own; And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy, And who'doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try'; And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist I don't think she'd be missedI'm sure she'd not be missed!
Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) GilbertEveryone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose… …Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part… …perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts… …the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events… …Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.
Edward HopperI was amazed how people would wear T-shirts at the windy corner of Portage and Main where the wind comes whistling off the plains. Seeing people wear T-shirts made me feel like a big pansy, I was in a big parka, and you'd see girls in little dresses going down the street. I couldn't understand it.
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light .