Edith Head Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.”
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Dresses #Enough
“You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.”
-- Edith Head

#Inspiring #Fashion #Dresses
“Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.”
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Language #Instinct
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Stars #Clothes
“You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.”
-- Edith Head

#Horse #Water #Want
“Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.”
-- Edith Head

#Home #Thinking #Needs
“What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.”
-- Edith Head

#Believe #Magic #Doe
“Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'”
-- Edith Head

#Skeletons #Guarantees #Taste
“Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!”
-- Edith Head

#Men #Two #World
“There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.”
-- Edith Head

#Stars #Matter #Size
“many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...”
-- Edith Head

#Men #Clothes #Dresses
“The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.”
-- Edith Head

#Clothes #Sin #Cardinals
“Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.”
-- Edith Head

#Thinking #Clothes #World
“Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.”
-- Edith Head

#Clothes #Competition #Life Is
“Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.”
-- Edith Head

#Two #Clothes #Black
“We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.”
-- Edith Head

#Believe #Different #Actors
“As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.”
-- Edith Head

#Shoes #Weakness #Lingerie
“Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.”
-- Edith Head

#Beautiful #Looks #Legs
“I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.”
-- Edith Head

#Stars #Animal #Lassie
“We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?”
-- Edith Head

#Depressing #Musical #Today
“Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.”
-- Edith Head

#Growing #Today #Thanks
“The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.”
-- Edith Head

#Jobs #Thinking #Clothes
“I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.”
-- Edith Head

#Beautiful #Clothes #Giving

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