"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world." - Abigail Adams, letter (1780)

"FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." - Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead." - Christopher Darlington Morley

"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out." - Dolly Parton

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you." - François Sagan

"To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable." - Eugenia Sheppard, in New York Herald Tribune

"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims

"All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress." - LIN YUTANG, quoted in Ladies' Home Journal

"Where's the man could ease a heart
Like a satin gown?"
- DOROTHY PARKER, The Satin Dress

"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
- SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

"Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991