Clothing Norms Quotes

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

How does gravity work? And if it were to cease suddenly, would certain restaurants still require a jacket?

When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

One great thing about going to a fashion event in the morning, especially in February in New York, is that the other attendees are dressed less like models themselves. A winter coat, it turns out, is a great equalizer.

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing.

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

When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

They shall not reveal any parts of their bodies, except that which is necessary.

Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why...Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed.

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

I always hated that clothing was gendered when I was young.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.