“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.” ThinkingMenHelpingHandsBabyHusbandClothesGardenEmptyMereBridgesServantPlatoDaddyMicrobesEmbroideryEmpty WordsParallelogram Book:Daddy-Long-Legs Source: Daddy-Long-Legs
“Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.” MayChildrenHomeNatureBabyBecomingClothesDollarsDarlingGarmentsPoorestPrettiest Book:Oldport Days Source: Oldport Days
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“How long have you been sitting in the darkness? You forget. You know you're getting hard to be with and you're crying every time you turn around. Oh my crazy baby, try to hold on tight. Oh my crazy baby, don't put out the light. And your hands are shaking something awful as your worries crawl around inside your clothes.” KnowsTryingLongHardHandsLightTurnsForgetDarknessWorryCrazyCryBabyClothesSittingAwfulShakingForget You Author:Joan Osborne
“I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.” MenWayWantTryingMadeTwoHardShowsWantedSidesBabyMetsBedClothesMovedDinnerSexualityTreatedSinister Author:Alexander McQueen
“Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.” FeelsJobsNiceBabyClothesGiantsFoldsHousekeepingNice Family Author:Dana Gould
“I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!” MadeWantedSchoolUsedJesusNamesStudyFashionStupidBabyPeriodsClothesSellsLabelsTeenagerDesignerOnlineStylistBaby Jesus Author:Bethany Cosentino
“The realities of getting up in the morning with two children and being covered in spit-up and totally filthy make me excited to imagine clothes that aren't made for baby puke. Dressing nicely is a dream now.” ChildrenMadeTwoDreamRealityMorningImagineBabyClothesExcitedCoveredDressingsSpitFilthyPukeSpit Up Author:Liv Tyler
“Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.” HumansWholeBigsFoundBornViewsRaceMorningBabyEgoClothesRedWeakWake UpGlassesSuitsHuman RaceCharacteristicsCowardCostumesBlanketCritiqueUnsureKentAlter EgoKill Bill Author:Quentin Tarantino
“But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.” WantBabyClothesWarmDrySwimPoolLeafsDry Leaves Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic
“Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.” LifeBelieveEyeWalksPoorStreetsBabyClothesDoctorsStoresAdsDarling Author:Katherine Dunn
“I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.” MenLittlesMightYoungBoysForeverCarBabyFitShapesClothesYoung ManHugLittle Boys Author:Wendell Berry