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Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?
...she wears a summer nightgown, white cotton trimmed with a token bit of lace at the neck and sleeves. She dislikes the itchiness of the lace against her skin, the sense of delicate entrapment.
TO A CHILD, BEHELD IN SUMMER RAIMENT
Little girl, one lesser garment
will suffice to clothe your crotch,
Hide that undiscovered cavern
Where old Time will wind his watch.
Where's the lace?Lace-- Nalini Singh
Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.
dresses, some of the girls in clothes which
Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.
moonshadow, tall
looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen?
You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones that hit at the knee or right below.
waistcoat-pocket,
A woman on the verge of moral downfall ought to be well dressed. Claire's particular transgression was gartered to her thigh, a paper hidden by yards of silk. She walked through the empty alley, confident in one comforting truth: no one dared ask a lady what her skirts concealed...
Girls are important: Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.
I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.
Dressed to strip?'
'You know - expensive clothes that feel good in your hands while you take them off him.
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.
You need to wear less clothing, lass.
I don't wear pants, or like them; I'm a Jewish woman who's made the decision to wear skirts, so I wear mostly skirts past the knee.
I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder.
around her slender waist.
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.
Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.
This is my barbed wire dress. It protects the property but doesn't hide the view.
Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.
sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey
Gravity Dress maybe? - and then, that's
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.
Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.
[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.
People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor.
The attire, before and now:
When it fits you, it feels you.
When they see you, you seize them.
But, today,
When it fits you, it freaks you.
When they see you, they cease you.
The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
It has been ages since the last time you enjoyed the night more than what you enjoy your overcoat.
Then you would dance the night, now you wear the night,
It is an accessory to hide you from everyone
There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.
If you've got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets - imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels.
I like the underwear, Tess. Now take it off.
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.
Jesus Christ in a miniskirt.
Her midriff bare, like the denizen ... of some pampering seraglio.
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body.
Damn, Lyla. That's what you've been hiding under those scarves and long skirts?
Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
flared out at the bottom. She wore so
I love sundresses and I love shorts.
She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.
Denim miniskirt. Tight white T-shirt. Scooped neck. Extraordinarily olive skin. Legs that make you care about legs. Perfectly coiffed curly brown hair. A laminated button reading ME FOR PROM QUEEN. Lacey Pemberton. Walking toward us.
We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
She was a tornado in a skirt.
Some days I might be wearing a little dress, and some days I might be wearing something with wings on it and be confusing.
The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to.
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.
It was a cream colored trapeze, sleeveless with a keyhole top that may or may not have been showing managerialappropriate cleavage. -Georgina
You can get a slouchy woman's tunic at different price points. But if you want a great pair of trousers or a dress with delicate pleating, you're going to have to spend a little more.
We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off.
-Fi Skirata
Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.
Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.
It was her wedding dress and it had a flare-out bottom, and they had laid her head to foot in it so the dress could spread out, and they had made her a veil out of a mosquito bar so the auger holes in her face wouldn't show.
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.
Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
I seem to recall ripping your panties off last night, so tell me, Soph, whatcha got on under this little red dress?
What is beauty, but an extension of modesty?
She wore a cantilevered, augmented-breast-skimming satin dress the colour of egg-yolk. Somewhere in deepest Nebraska, a prom queen two sizes smaller than Selena was wondering where the fuck her outfit had disappeared to.
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.
Nice dress. Take it off.
Lingerie is that inner, secret glamour.
I liked long skirts," he said nostalgically. "I liked the underthings women wore. The petticoats.
I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.
- If a woman wears short skirt in the company of man it means "I want to fuck", if she talks with a man when she wears short skirt it means "I want to fuck just you".
- And if I have no clothes now?
- It means that I'm gonna fuck you right now!
This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.
After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress,
Modesty is invisibility ... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be ... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
Unthinkable clothing
I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
Slattern's robe. Her feet were red at the knuckles
In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.
In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
You wearing a thigh sheath?"
"Now what would be the sense of wearing just one? I have two thighs.
Where's your dress?
There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
The dress was cut so queerly I couldn't wear any sort of a bra under it, but that didn't matter much as I was skinny as a boy and barely rippled, and I liked feeling almost naked on the hot summer nights.
I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons."
"CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.
Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl,"
-pg. 214
A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown ...
The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.
This is not a dress. This is a sacred robe of the ancient psychedelic monks.
Sewn together patterns,
like many clashing moods,
She wears what
No others dare
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.