“An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.” ThinkingMindStatesPassionEnergyPleasurePrinciplesConditionsProduceDressesTrainAbstractThoughtfulCivilizedSavagesDominionFondnessUncivilizedTrain Of Thought Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.” WayShouldDifferentStatesChristianReligiousStyleAmountLogicDressesNotionBest WayVersionsCompromiseTheologicalPrevailingDifferent StylesPluralism Author:Joseph Sobran
“One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.” StatesHomeDressesIncrediblesGreat ThingsJournalistFeaturesFakeFancyBossEngagementKateCountrysideWedding Dress Author:Caitlin Moran
“Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?” StatesParticularHairOughtDiversityDressesConstantVariousEveningRememberedRelatedComplimentJournalCousinBathsAbsentCivilityCurlsRecourseTenorsComplexion Book:The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close. ʺBut for what itʹs worth, I think youʹd be a great queen too, Princess Dragomir.ʺ ʺYouʹre going to get dirty,ʺ she warned. ʺAlready am. Oh, you mean from your clothes?ʺ He wrapped his arms around her, heedless of her damp and muddy state. ʺI spent most of my childhood hiding in a dusty attic and own exactly one dress shirt. You really think I care about this T-shirt?ʺ” ThinkingMeanStatesCareChristianChildhoodArmsClothesDressesDirtyQueensShirtsHidingPrincessI CareT ShirtMuddyDampAtticsChristian Ozera Author:Richelle Mead
“Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldn't possibly withstand any more.” HeartStatesMovingNightDignityDressesManageBeachSandGood NightDianaStockings Author:Anna Godbersen
“A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveStillsSometimesStatesFilmNationsPresidentUnitedNumbersUnited StatesDoubtNewsYears AgoDressesSignificantTraditionalChiefsAgencyInterviewsClothingsPrincipalPilgrimTenureCherokeeSignificant Numbers Book:Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women Source: Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
“Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned.” GivingWellsTwoStatesLordFeetConcernedDressesObsessionParisExpensesPigsSpouse Author:Gail Carriger
“You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.” PeopleWayWantStatesEyeCertainGirlUnitedBoysUnited StatesMediaPicksDressesKneesNeighborhoodPantsNormCompelled Author:Hillary Clinton
“Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.” PeopleGivingMindStatesFeelingsFashionStyleJudgingDressesState Of MindInward Author:Mae West
“Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane” IfsMenMayStatesInterestHigherClothesCapableDressesPlanesImmoralEroticHabitualNudityImmoralityElevating Author:Lucy Irvine