These dress quotes will inspire you. A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment traditionally worn by women or girls consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment).
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging dress quotes, dress sayings, and dress proverbs.
Best Dress Quotes
- “A dress should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to prove you’re a lady.” ~ Edith Head
- “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” ~ Yves Saint Laurent
- “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” ~ Edith Head
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“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.” ~ Epictetus
- “A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.” ~ Christian Dior
- “Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.” ~ Gianni Versace
- “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.” ~ Sophia Loren
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“I like to play dress up, I’m in love with fashion.” ~ Fantasia Barrino
- “Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.” ~ Alexander Wang
- “The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” ~ Hubert de Givenchy
- “Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
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“No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.” ~ Regina Brett
- “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” ~ Coco Chanel , Fashion dress quotes
- “I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.” ~ Vera Wang
- “Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?” ~ Rita Rudner
- “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” ~ Coco Chanel
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“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” ~ Marlene Dietrich
- “I love flowy hippie dresses.” ~ Joy Bryant
- “Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.” ~ Elsa Schiaparelli
- “I liked wearing the ’50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.” ~ Erin Moran
- “I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.” ~ Vivienne Westwood
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“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.” ~ Francoise Sagan
- “The more you’ll dress up the more fun you’ll have.” ~ Brian Molko
- “I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.” ~ Yves Saint Laurent
- “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.” ~ Kate Moss
- “I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.” ~ Whitney Houston
- “It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.” ~ Vera Wang
- “Language is the dress of thought.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “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
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “Dressing well is a form of good manners.” ~ Tom Ford
- “I dress for women and I undress for men.” ~ Angie Dickinson
- “That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.” ~ Gianni Versace
- “I’ve been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too – what I should wear.” ~ Vera Wang
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“I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.” ~ Anthony Trollope
- “You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.” ~ Mae West
- “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.” ~ Julia Stiles
- “You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.” ~ Gianni Versace
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“You know when you find a great dress, you’ve gotta hold on to it.” ~ Rachel McAdams
- “The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.” ~ William Manchester
- “Take opera for example – to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.” ~ Wim Wenders
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“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.” ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
- “I don’t always wear underwear. When I’m in the heat, especially, I can’t wear it. Like, if I’m wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “There’s no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol – the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.” ~ Pamela Anderson
- “I don’t think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It’s just more tasteful.” ~ Rachel Zoe
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“I love color and I love to dress like a woman.” ~ Lisa Guerrero
- “If I want to wear a dress, I’ll wear a dress.” ~ Dennis Rodman
- “Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” ~ Jane Austen
- “He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.” ~ Walter Benjamin
- “Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.” ~ Prince Charles
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“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.” ~ Gianni Versace
- “The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “I feel very strongly about dresses on every level – a dress feels like underpinning.” ~ Donna Karan
- “If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.” ~ Vin Diesel
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“I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.” ~ Wynton Marsalis
- “Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.” ~ Mark Twain
- “I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine o’clock in the morning dressed in a woman’s evening dress sober.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
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“Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.” ~ Ludwig Bemelmans
- “Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.” ~ Jena Malone
