Clean Clothes Quotes

“I had discovered, or rediscovered, that crying is a pleasure—that it can be a pleasure beyond all reckoning if your head is pressed in your mother's waist and her hands are on your back, and if she happens to be wearing clean clothes.”
― Richard Yates, The Collected Stories

“Your clothes should be as important as your skin.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt.

But he was a poet.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Before the presents, Maximilian and his brother Reinhard would bathe together in the smoke kitchen in a wood tub held together by iron rings. Cursing when one of them had peed in the bathwater, they would lather themselves with a bar of turpentine soap with a stag stamped on its surface, dry their lean white bodies, the genitals still hairless, with a coarse towel beside the glowing red griddle of the wood-burning stove, and put on clean underwear, ironed shirts, and gray wool socks.”
― Josef Winkler, When the Time Comes