Donna Neeper

“The French perfected the clean, elegant line and the atelier approach to making clothing. The Italians were masters of the fine handwork needed for leather goods and tailoring. What America excelled at as the apparel business scaled up and industrialized in the early 20th century was mass-produced good-quality, hard-wearing clothes. American workwear and sportswear, like American cars, had a tough, overbuilt quality: the copper button fly on a pair of Levi's, the waxed cotton "tin cloth" that made Filson gear able to withstand wind, rain, and maybe even a blast of dynamite.”
― Steven Kurutz, American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

“Children, did you know that if Jesus had never been born, we wouldn't have Christmas at all? There wouldn't be Christmas trees or Christmas lights, we wouldn't give each other Christmas presents, and there wouldn't even be a Santa Claus, if Jesus had never been born!”
― Dan Short

“When you start to dress yourself, you are beginning a lifelong journey into your own future, the subtle, everyday construction of who you are through what you wear. Of course, you come in at a particular moment in the fashion cycle, and where you come in will define what happens for the rest of that life.”
― Linda Grant

“In this is a warning to any culture or nation that opens its door to the gods, or in any way, removes its safeguards against them. If the gods, or shedim, are not bound by time, then they are still present and a present danger to the modern world. If they are not bound by geography, then they can touch any land, any people, and any nation. And if they can change their appearance, if they come in disguise, then we might not recognize them when they come or discern their manifesting.”
― Jonathan Cahn, The Avatar