Clothes

Famous quotes containing the word clothes:

“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)

“The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn’t look too strange in the country.”
—Hardy, Sir Amies (b. 1909)