Restrictive Clothing Quotes

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that's always a clear understanding that I'm not going to feel good that day.

Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.

One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

We are permitted to ride, providing we sit in a position ruinous to the horse; providing we wear a riding-habit long enough to hide the obscene human foot, weighed down by ten pounds of gravel to cheat the wind in its free blowing, so running the risk of disabling ourselves completely should accident throw us from the saddle. Think how we swim! We must even wear clothing in the water, and run the gauntlet of derision, if we dare battle in the surf minus stockings!

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

I feel uncomfortable in anything tight or body-con.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.

Corsetry is a body modification.

I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a piece of rubber band I wore around to hold my rib cage in. I don't know why I always loved that. I guess I was a glutton for punishment. I think I was born one of those people who loved swords and fought in armor.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

I find clothes so constricting!

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

I have a short, home-made armguard because I don't like the regular ones. I'd wear that on a lively pitch. I don't use a chest guard because I find it too restrictive.