There’s no such thing as a designer of menswear—it’s only history. The suit around the world is based on the english suit, which began in about 1670.
Hardy Amies
There’s no such thing as a designer of menswear—it’s only history. The suit around the world is based on the english suit, which began in about 1670.
Hardy Amies
To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.
Mason Cooley
Independence, assurance, originality, self-control and refinement should all be visible in the cut of his clothes.
Ellen Moers
‘Tis hell to a man of spirit to be contradicted by his tailor.
Richard Garnett
I’ve always been backward on morals, but I do know how to dress appropriately for any given occasion, and that’s more than half the battle.
Thorne Smith
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy: for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Shakespeare
One day when I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably dressed I was in a well cut brown suit, a very distinguished-looking man shouted at me, ‘People like you ought to be shot!’
Cecil Beaton
Though starving at school, I never took twice of pudding, and paid sixpence a week out of my shilling to have my shoes blacked.
Bulwer-Lytton
Women should never be allowed to counsel men about clothes.
George Frazier
The most challenging part to dressing well is knowing how to be elegant while being casual.
Umberto Angeloni
Do you think it means nothing to have the right, as you make your entry into a salon, to look down on everybody from the height of your cravat and be privileged to despise the most important man there if his waistcoat is out of fashion?
Balzac
Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
Wilkie Collins
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde
Everything a man of fashion puts on his body must be broken in, nothing should appear new.
Kotzebue
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