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“You look... amazing!" And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life. I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life. But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?”

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Book:Confessions of a Shopaholic
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“The pull toward conformity can be strong. The desire to fit in with popular culture is significant at times, as is the desire to impress others with our clothing. And no matter how old we get, the desire to run with the cool kids can remain. But I believe that within each of us is a desire that is even stronger- the desire to be ourselves, to embrace the things we love and enjoy and that make us unique. One of the best decisions we can make is to reject the cultural expectations that change with the wind. And to accept the fact that we don't need to run with the cool kids to be happy. We can choose to be ourselves instead.”

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Book:The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
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“"I don't suppose you remember where you left your clothing," Daniel murmured to me. Chloe gave a soft laugh. "That's always the problem, isn't it? Okay then. You two go find that. We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole lot more pleasant that way. At least as a wolf, he can't talk." The wolf growled, but she only laughed and gave him a pat, then tugged him away as we went to retrieve my clothing.”

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Book:The Rising
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“Revolutions begin with what is most intimate, with the things that lay against our skin. Clothing-creators world and time over have taken the greatest risks expressing themselves through what is hidden—reimagining movement, finding breath. The alterations reverberate through each successive layer.”

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Book:Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
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“The color black has also been found to decrease memory performance in a number of studies. Other research by the University of British Columbia, on the other hand, showed that red boosted memory by as much as 31% more than even blue, a color that has been known to boost cognitive performance.”

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Book:The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know
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“The old quip that “Clothes make the man or woman” may be debatable, but it is certainly true that the clothes we wear can have a strong psychological effect on how we feel about ourselves, and how others think about us.”

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Book:My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
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“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.”

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Book:A Vintage Affair
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“Among all Crafts this [i.e. clothing manufacture] was the onely chiefe, for that it was the greatest merchandize, by the which our Countrey became famous through all Nations. And it was verily thought, that the one halfe of the people in the land liued in those daies therby, and in such good sort, that in the Common-wealth there were few or no beggers at all : poore people, whom God lightly blesseth with most children, did by meanes of this occupation so order them, that by the time that they were come to be sixe or seuen yeares of 20 age, they were able to get their owne bread : Idlenesse was then banished our coast, so that it was a rare thing to heare of a thiefe in those daies”

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Book:His Pleasant Historie of Thomas of Reading And Three Ballads On The Spanish Armada
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“I followed his gaze on my pillow, upon which rested a thing I did not recognize, woolen and oddly shaped. I seized it abruptly, indignant. It was my jumper! "How---what have you---" "I'm sorry," he said, not looking up from the flicker and flash of the needle. "But you cannot expect me to live in close proximity to clothing that barely deserves the word. It is inhumane." I shook out the jumper, gaping. I could hardly tell it was the same garment. Yes, it was the same color, but the wool itself seemed altered, becoming softer, finer, without losing any of its warmth. And it was not a baggy square anymore; it would hang only a little loose on me now, while clearly communicating the lines of my figure. "From now on, you will keep your damned hands off my clothes!" I snapped, then flushed, realizing how that sounded. Bambleby took no notice of any of it. "Do you know that there are men and women who would hand over their firstborns to have their wardrobes tended by a king of Faerie?" he said, calmly snipping a thread. "Back home, every courtier wanted a few moments of my time." "King?" I repeated, staring at him. And yet I was not hugely surprised---it would explain his magic. A king or queen of Faerie, the stories say, can tap into the power of their realm. Yet that power, while vast, is not thought to be limitless, there are tales of kings and queens falling for human trickery. And Bambleby's exile is of course additional testimony.”

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Book:Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
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“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”

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Author:Mary Rose O'Reilley
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“Najednou nechci být dobrý a ctihodný. (Prý nikdy ctihodný být ani nemohu, takže na tom ani nezáleží.) Chci si obléct levandulové punčochy s červenými sametovými rajtkami a k tomu zelený dublet se žlutými pruhy, na rameno si zavěsit světlemodrý hedvábný plášť a za klobouk vetknout černé orlí péro, a také mít velký meč a jestřába a kopí a skotačícího koně, abych mohl jezdit mezi lidi a těšit jejich zraky. Proč bychom se měli všichni snažit vypadat jako mravenci ploužící se přes hromadu mouru? Proč bychom se nemohli oblékat trochu živěji? Jsem přesvědčený, že kdybychom to udělali, byli bychom šťastnější. Ano, je to banalita, ale my jsme banální rasa, a k čemu je dobré předstírat něco jiného a být za kazisvěty? Ať se jako havrani oblékají filozofové, pokud se jim chce. Mně však dovolte být motýlem.”

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Book:Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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“If a woman had a right to wear a miniskirt, surely I had the right to choose my headscarf. My choice was a sign of independence of mind. Surely, to choose to wear what I wanted was an assertion of my feminism. I was a feminist, wasn't I? But I was to learn that choosing to wear the hijab is much easier than choosing to take it off. And that lesson was an important reminder of how truly "free" choice is.”

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Book:Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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“I think a marvelous stunt would be to have your best friend (or the most critical acquaintance) take some candid color snapshots of you from all angles, dressed just as you usually appear at, say, six in the evening. The same hairdo, the same makeup, and if possible the same expression on your face. Be honest! Be sure to have her take the rear views, too. There ought to be some other shots of you wearing your best going-out-to-dinner dress, or your favorite bridge-with-the-girls costume — hat, gloves, bag, and costume jewelry. Everything. Then have that roll of film developed and BLOWN UP. You can’t see much in a tiny snapshot. An eight-by-ten will show you the works — and you probably won’t be very happy with it. Sit down and take a long look at that strange woman. Is she today’s with-it person — elegant, poised, groomed, glowing with health? Or is she a plump copy of Miss 1950? Is she sleek, or bumpy in the wrong places? How is her posture? Does she look better from the front than from the back? Does she stand gracefully? […] Feet together or one slightly in front of the other, is the most graceful stance. […] I always pin my bad notices on my mirror. How about keeping those eight-by-ten candid shots around your dressing room for a while as you dress?”

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Book:My Way of Life
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“If you think the dress is right for you, where are you going to wear it? Does it fit into the kind of life you lead? (If you live in the country, what are you doing with all those town suits and hostess pajamas?) Supposing the dress is all right. If so, what shoes do you wear with it? What hat, gloves? Handbag, jewelry? […] So many women fall in love with a dress, bring it home, and find absolutely nothing that will go with it.”

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Book:My Way of Life
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“...the Diderot effect describes the tendency for one purchase to lead to others... First a fishing pole, then tackle boxes full of fishing gear. Perhaps the place in our homes where we most clearly see the Diderot effect operating is in our wardrobes as clothing purchases lead to other clothing or accessory purchases.”

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Book:The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
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“ইসলামের একজন অনুসারী হিসেবে আমি সৃষ্টিকর্তা হিসেবে আল্লাহর অস্তিত্বে দৃঢ় বিশ্বাস রাখি। আসুন আমরা আমাদের চারপাশে বিশ্বের ঘটনাগুলোতে আলোকপাত করি, ঘাসের ক্ষুদ্রতম ফলক থেকে পাখির সুন্দর উড়ান পর্যন্ত। উদাহরণস্বরূপ, বিভিন্ন প্রাণীর অনন্য বৈশিষ্ট্য বিদ্যমান, যেমন, গরুর লেজ আছে কিন্তু মানুষের মধ্যে এর অনুপস্থিতি বিবেচনা করুন। লেজ গরুর জন্য শালীনতা এবং কীটপতঙ্গের বিরুদ্ধে সুরক্ষা উভয় উপায় হিসেবে কাজ করে। স্রষ্টা ভাবলেন যে লেজ থাকাটা মানুষের জন্য অপ্রয়োজনীয় এবং তিনি আমাদেরকে পোশাক তৈরি করে পরার ক্ষমতা দিয়েছেন!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque
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“ইসলামের একজন অনুসারী হিসেবে আমি সৃষ্টিকর্তা হিসেবে আল্লাহর অস্তিত্বে দৃঢ় বিশ্বাস রাখি। আসুন আমরা আমাদের চারপাশে বিশ্বের ঘটনাগুলোতে আলোকপাত করি, ঘাসের ক্ষুদ্রতম ফলক থেকে পাখির সুন্দর উড়ান পর্যন্ত। উদাহরণস্বরূপ, বিভিন্ন প্রাণীর অনন্য বৈশিষ্ট্য বিদ্যমান, যেমন, গরুর লেজ আছে কিন্তু মানুষের মধ্যে এর অনুপস্থিতি বিবেচনা করুন। লেজ গরুর জন্য শালীনতা এবং কীটপতঙ্গের বিরুদ্ধে সুরক্ষা উভয় উপায় হিসেবে কাজ করে। স্রষ্টা ভাবলেন যে লেজ থাকাটা মানুষের জন্য অপ্রয়োজনীয় এবং তিনি আমাদেরকে পোশাক তৈরি করে পরার ক্ষমতা দিলেন!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque
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“ইসলামের একজন অনুসারী হিসেবে আমি সৃষ্টিকর্তা হিসেবে আল্লাহর অস্তিত্বে দৃঢ় বিশ্বাস রাখি। আসুন আমরা আমাদের চারপাশে বিশ্বের ঘটনাগুলোতে আলোকপাত করি, ঘাসের ক্ষুদ্রতম ফলক থেকে পাখির সুন্দর উড়ান পর্যন্ত। উদাহরণস্বরূপ, বিভিন্ন প্রাণীর মধ্যে অনন্য বৈশিষ্ট্য বিদ্যমান, যেমন, গরুর লেজ আছে কিন্তু মানুষের মধ্যে এর অনুপস্থিতি বিবেচনা করুন। লেজ গরুর জন্য শালীনতা এবং কীটপতঙ্গের বিরুদ্ধে সুরক্ষা উভয় উপায় হিসেবে কাজ করে। স্রষ্টা ভাবলেন যে লেজ থাকাটা মানুষের জন্য অপ্রয়োজনীয় এবং তিনি আমাদেরকে পোশাক তৈরি করে পরার ক্ষমতা দিলেন!”

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Author:Md. Ziaul Haque
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