Clothing Alteration Quotes

A tailor is a person's best friend as far as I'm concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.

Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans.

I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

Unzip your fly. There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it.

The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.

I've always been into thrifting. I'm a fan of finding unique pieces and having them tailored or altered.

I think I get almost every piece of clothing that I buy altered and taken in just to fit me exactly the way it should.

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

When it's time to pull and tuck, I'm sure I will consider it.

In the seventh grade, I was about to leave wearing a jumper, when my mom said she could see my panty line. So I just wore stockings. That day I broke my ankle, and the EMS cut my tights off. I got a full cast with no stockings on and no panties.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

I'm short, and I always need to alter everything, and I alter a lot of what I wear.

When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything.

Usually when I buy clothes off the rack, I need to have them adjusted.

I think that something that people in general forget to do - and it's true, not everyone has the financial means to do this - whatever clothes you buy if you really want them to fit well, you need to have them altered or tailored. And whether you're doing that yourself, whether you're taking it to your drycleaner that has a tailor, you need to alter and tailor everything, whether it's expensive, whether it's, you know, whether it's inexpensive. If you want it to really fit your body, even the best clothes have to be tailored.

I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little.

Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really big difference, especially with pieces like a cocktail dress. Little nips and tucks can take 10 pounds off you.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

I'm really into vintage clothes. So I've been... vintage shopping and kind of adding and reconstructing things and just doing a little bit of designing.