Pleats Quotes:

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

- Mike Rowe

topic: Men, Flats, Pleats

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

- David Bailey

source: 1990 In The Independent, 5 Nov.

topic: Girl, Witty, Fashion, Pleats

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

source: 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Style, Pleats, Trinkets

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

- Gary McCord

topic: Pants, Scream, Golfers, Pleats

She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I don’t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.

- Kathryn Stockett

source: Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.13, Penguin

topic: Morning, Hate, Blue Dress, Pleats

I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

- Giambattista Valli

topic: Flower, Design, Ruffles, Pleats

When you walk in a saree, you must kick the pleats. It becomes more comfortable that way.

- Kajol

topic: Way, Sari, Walks, Pleats

A game is not won until it is lost.

- David Pleat

topic: Football, Games, Lost, Stupid Sports, Pleats

I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that says the wrong way. But it doesn't work, these erasures, this constant refolding of the pleats. There were some nice parts, sure, all lemondrop and mellonball, laughing in silk pajamas and the grain of sugar on the toast, love love or whatever, take a number. I'm sorry it's such a lousy story.

- Richard Siken

topic: Sorry, Nice, Numbers, Some Nice, Pleats

The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?

- Rei Kawakubo

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Space, Tables, Firsts, Pleats

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

- Tom Brady

topic: Guy, Athletic, Woods, Pleats

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

- Denise Levertov

topic: Pain, White, Knowing, Folding, Pleats

But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am very confident that he, with all his media commitments around the world, knows the market place.

- Billy Davies

topic: Football, Commitment, Media, Pleats

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

- Helen Rowland

source: Helen Rowland (2017). “The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon”, p.8, Litres

topic: Husband, Wrinkles, Unnecessary, Pleats