There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mold of arm or breast, but they will mold our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

-What do you call a Frenchman in sandals? -Philippe Philoppe.

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

For a lifetime I had bathed with becoming regularity, and thought the world would come to an end unless I changed my socks every day. But in Africa I sometimes went without a bath for two months, and I went two weeks at a time without even changing my socks. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to make much difference.

Your socks should never be funnier than you are.

Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.

I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.

To most people a savage nation is one that doesn't wear uncomfortable clothes.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

As soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Does fashion matter? Always - though not quite as much after death.

Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?

A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock. So I stopped wearing socks.