Anne Hollander quotes
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“Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.”
-- Anne HollanderSource : Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.355, Univ of California Press
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“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.”
-- Anne HollanderSource : Anne Hollander (1993). “Seeing Through Clothes”, p.444, Univ of California Press
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“Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.”
-- Anne HollanderSource : Anne Hollander (2016). “Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“The art of dressing is the art we all practice”
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“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
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“All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“The world sums you up by the clothes that you wear, and treats you accordingly.”
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“I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”
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