Edith Head famous quotes

04-14-2025

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Dresses #Enough
You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
-- Edith Head

#Inspiring #Fashion #Dresses
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Language #Instinct
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
-- Edith Head

#Fashion #Stars #Clothes
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
-- Edith Head

#Horse #Water #Want
Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
-- Edith Head

#Home #Thinking #Needs
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.
-- Edith Head

#Believe #Magic #Doe
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
-- Edith Head

#Skeletons #Guarantees #Taste
Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!
-- Edith Head

#Men #Two #World
There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
-- Edith Head

#Stars #Matter #Size
many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...
-- Edith Head

#Men #Clothes #Dresses
The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
-- Edith Head

#Clothes #Sin #Cardinals
Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.
-- Edith Head

#Thinking #Clothes #World
Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.
-- Edith Head

#Clothes #Competition #Life Is
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
-- Edith Head

#Two #Clothes #Black
We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.
-- Edith Head

#Believe #Different #Actors
As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
-- Edith Head

#Shoes #Weakness #Lingerie
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
-- Edith Head

#Beautiful #Looks #Legs
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.
-- Edith Head

#Stars #Animal #Lassie
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
-- Edith Head

#Depressing #Musical #Today
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
-- Edith Head

#Growing #Today #Thanks
The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.
-- Edith Head

#Jobs #Thinking #Clothes
I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.
-- Edith Head

#Beautiful #Clothes #Giving

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