She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generously cut shift dress made out of a flecked green fabric. It was like a tent, thought Mma Ramotswe--a camouflage tent of the sort that the Botswana Defence Force might use. But I do not sit in judgement on the dresses of others, she told herself, and a tent was a practical enough garment, if that is what one felt comfortable in.
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Twice, in half an hour, Hetty had held up Miss Barlow's plans, and prevented her from moving as quickly as possible on to the next pleasure. Miss Barlow liked her life to be a steady movement towards pleasure. While she was having one, she was thinking about the next and what she should wear while she had that.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it _ or they think you have.
If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one__ clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.
If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.
The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va _ vie.)
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist__usical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. _ No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Animal are more modern because they don't wear anything...!!!
A commune of library employees in Moscow created an "extreme" commune in which all clothing - including undergarments - was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes "it would be characterized as a backslide into darkest capitalism; as prejudice originating in a petit-bourgeois ideology".
Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.
The way you dress is how you greet the sun and other stars.