Clothing is material used to cover parts of the human body for protection against the environment, for comfort and body modesty, and as personal decoration ("fashion"), often reflecting religious, cultural, and social customs. Clothes are individual articles of clothing (although the term is always used in plural form).
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- Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
- Dorothy Parker, caption written for Vogue, 1916. (Cf. Hamlet, Act II, sc. ii: "Brevity is the soul of wit.")
- Quoted in Alexander Woollcott, While Rome Burns (1934), p. 146
- Vestis facit virum.
- English: Clothes make the man.
- Latin proverb, unidentfied origin
- Quoted in Halyard, Ned (1849). "The Owners" (in English). Sea Songs, Tales, Etc.. Palmer & Hoby. pp. page 263. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
- Kleiden machen Leute: nicht Leute von Verstand.
- English: Clothes make the man, but not the man of sense.
- German proverb, unidentfied origin
- Quoted in Weston, Stephen (1824). "Pecularities of the German" (in English). The Englishman Abroad, in Russia, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal. Oxford University. pp. page 101. Retrieved on 2008-03-13.
Décolletage
Décolletage is a low neckline on a woman's dress, designed to emphasize but not quite reveal a woman's breasts.
- When my modiste first tried it on me I asked if she was dressing me for an opera or an operation.
- Nora Bayes, commenting on the gasps of friends over an extremely décolleté dress
- Samuels, Charles and Louise (1974). Once upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville. Cornwall, NY: Cornwall Press. pp. page 87. ISBN 0-396-07030-2.
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