“You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses." by Dorothy Parker?
Dorothy Parker172
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967Related quotes
“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Little Black Dress"
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
“Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;
In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.”
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England
A Summary of Lord Lyttelton’s Advice.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
"Auctorial Induction"
The Certain Hour (1916)
Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
As cited in: Alison Behnke (2012) The Little Black Dress and Zoot Suits, p. 18
The Little Dictionary of Fashion, 1954
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 160.