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    Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls.
    Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in;
    Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in,
    Dresses in which to do nothing at all;
    Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall;
    All of them different in color and shape.
    Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape,
    Brocade and broadcloth, and other material,
    Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.

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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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Dwellers in huts and in marble halls--
From Shepherdess up to Queen--
Cared little for bonnets, and read more

Dwellers in huts and in marble halls--
From Shepherdess up to Queen--
Cared little for bonnets, and less for shawls,
And nothing for crinoline.
But now simplicity's not the rage,
And it's funny to think how cold
The dress they wore in the Golden Age
Would seem in the Age of Gold.

by Henry S. Leigh Found in: Apparel Quotes,
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(Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
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(Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.

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A vest as admired Voltiger had on,
Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
Whose artful read more

A vest as admired Voltiger had on,
Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won,
Whose artful colour pass'd the Tyrian dye,
Obliged to triumph in this legacy.

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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the
trimmings of the vain.

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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

by Robert Burns Found in: Apparel Quotes,
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It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Apparel Quotes,
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So for thy spirit did devise
Its Maker seemly garniture,
Of its own essence parcel pure.--
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So for thy spirit did devise
Its Maker seemly garniture,
Of its own essence parcel pure.--
From grave simplicities a dress,
And reticent demureness,
And love encinctured with reserve;
Which the woven vesture would subserve.
For outward robes in their ostents
Should show the soul's habiliments.
Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,
But better Fair I use to know.

by Francis Thompson Found in: Apparel Quotes,
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Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags read more

Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Apparel Quotes,
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