“Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.” IfsFeelsReasonFeelingsPassionInterestPerfectMinutesSubjectsTenClothesConcernRootsDressesComplexesIndifferentTopicsStraightforwardGuardedTouchyOverbearingDeep Roots Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.” HappensOrderSpeakPerfectFashionIgnoranceShapesDressesMetaphorTricksArchitectConformGothicCorinthiansSnobbyFrench Woman Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they're color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.” HomeOrderPerfectColorDressesSuitsShirtsTiesClosetsCasual Author:Mark Teixeira
“Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.” FilmWishPerfectDirectDressesCastsNovelists Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.” PeopleMenWarCharacterSeemsActorsPerfectStageHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenDressesPhotographCivil WarPerformersUniformsCostumesHandsomePageantBradyStage Actors Author:David McCullough
“I would probably say David Bowie and Prince are the perfect people. They dress feminine/masculine and they're really sexy. Not many people can wear high heels and look sexier than a woman!” PeopleLooksPerfectDressesSexyFeminineHeelsMasculineHigh HeelsBowie Author:Aino Jawo
“My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and high-heeled shoes and a handbag. And someone's waiting to do my hair and makeup. You can tell I've been in too many romantic comedies.” HomeWould BeWaitingPerfectComedyHairDressesShoesBoxesGiantsMakeupComing HomeValentineGorgeousValentine's DayHandbagsHair And Makeup Author:Judy Greer
“I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.” WayRememberPerfectDressesCuteFabulousRemember WhenPremieres Author:Julia Roberts
“I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.” WayTodayRememberPerfectChangedDressesCuteFabulousRemember WhenPremieres Author:Julia Roberts
“I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.” WantI CanWaitingCan DoPerfectDesignDressesSomedayI Can Do It Author:Taylor Swift
“At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.” FirstsTwoLightTogetherGirlBlackDarkSpaceWhitePerfectCitiesWindHairShadowDressesDawnButterflyMidnightVioletPurpleBlondeMothsPoniesRantRaveDark Hair Author:Francesca Lia Block
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?” WayNeedsFeelsLongNightPerfectCuttingCryTearsHairCoupleLonelyDressesRoseTalesParisFairyComplimentWeekendFairy TaleHugShowersLong WayWipePetalsFeeling LonelyLong Way To GoRose PetalsHair CutI Feel LonelyHe Makes Me FeelPerfect Couple Book:Rosie Dunne Source: Rosie Dunne
“I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman." Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. "Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he?" "No, I usually do it myself.” LooksPerfectDressesEyebrowsLeonardo Author:Nora Roberts
“By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.” PerfectRedDressesLipsKneesKnivesEyelashesRed Lips Author:Veronica Roth
“It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes.” FeelsNightFunPerfectDressesExesHipsterPerfect Night Author:Taylor Swift
“I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantYearsLittlesBigsPerfectFiguresWalkingDressesAssumingFatsBreastsFraudOld WomanThighsInsidiousJamieSpaghettiBlahPerpetuatingGlamFat PeopleFattyUnsuspectingBig Breast Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“My name is Catherine Elizabeth Deeley and I am a huge Mulberry fan . . . Almost an addict! Bags, shoes, knitwear, bikinis, whatever Emma Hill designs, I normally want in copious amounts! This is an easy, breezy, Grace Kelly in High Society piece. A timeless dress, just perfect!” WantNamesEasyPerfectGracePiecesFansDesignHugeAmountDressesShoesHillsBagsTimelessAddictEmmaBikinisBreezyMulberryKnitwear Author:Cat Deeley
“Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.” FeelsMayAblePerfectFashionClothesDressesShoesLipsNormPillowLipstickRecessionsBotoxHairdresserFillers Author:Imogen Edwards-Jones