Evening Gowns Quotes

• Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

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  Thelma Golden

  Space   Tailors   Pants  

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• I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

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  Anita Loos

  Style   Gowns   Sawdust  

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• We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!

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  Clare Grogan

  People   Black   Evening  

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• a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

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  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Running   Dresses   Gowns  

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• Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

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  Margaret Thatcher

  War   Iron   Hair  

  3022

• [When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.

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  Kim Campbell

  Gowns   Evening   Banquets  

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• I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]

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  Lauren Child

  Mom   Gowns   Dinner  

  4897

• When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.

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  Bette Midler

  Drinking   People   Smoking  

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