Not amused

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

J. M. Barrie

First law of fashion?

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

P.G. Wodehouse 

Tease this

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

Sartorial splendor?

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.


H. H. Munro 

Good fences, frustrated neighbors?

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Sophia Loren 

A la macaques?

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 

A blaze of glory

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Walter Lord 

The embodiment of grace?

I for one venerate a petticoat. 

Lord Byron 

I'll say this for sherry....

It really makes you fancy a vodka.

Barbara Knox

Does she or doesn't she?

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

Edith Wharton
   

Matrophobia?

We have nothing to fear but our mothers.

Anne Taintor

Leveraged assets?

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Margery Allingham 
 

Her crowning glory

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Fred Allen

Your date for the atomic prom

Miss Betty Clift dressed as an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Credits: stevechasmar's photostream @ flickr.com

A bee in her bonnet?

A precursor to the beehive of the sixties?

What's the matter?

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Albert Einstein.

Strange Convergence: Coffee Filters + Design = Prom Dress

Aimee Kick, who designed her own prom dress out of unbleached paper coffee filters. More at Ethical Style.

Big heart

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

Dorothy Parker

Sun-stroked or sun-smitten?

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Baker

Joys of summer

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen