Sartorial Quotations

[kilted2000]

Marcelo had a really nice idea

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. ~Cecil Beaton


Never wear anything that panics the cat. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. ~Honoré de Balzac


One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ~Oscar Wilde


Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. ~Anne Hollander

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~John Taylor


Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? ~P.G. Wodehouse

[storeynicholas]

The then Duke of Bedford, in St James's Street, once asked Brummell for his opinion on a new coat. Brummell solemnly walked around the Duke, looking him up and down and then came to face him and said: "Bedford, do you call this thing a coat?" (Source: Captain Jesse's biography).
NJS

[marcelo]

One interesting thing about Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
is that right at the outset of the story Widmerpool is referred to as a person famous for his sartorial blunders. He is so awkward in this regard that his companions come to refer to whatever garment or accessory they consider inappropriate as a "Widmerpool tie", a "Widmerpool coat", etc. Here is an excerpt from page 4 of Powell’s 12-volume story:

[kilted2000]

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
- W. A. Mozart

[marcelo]

American poet Frederick Seidel

[Gruto]

The art of dressing is knowing just how nonchalant you can be. ~ Hardy Amies

[marcelo]

E. G. E. L. Bulwer-Lytton: Pelham; or, The adventures of a gentleman
(1828)