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Top 25 Edith Head Quotes (2025 Update)

Edith Head Quote: “Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.”

1. “Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady.”

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Edith Head Quote: “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.”

2. “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.”

Edith Head Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “Even the most beautiful legs – Marlene Dietrich’s, for instance – look better when the kneecap is covered.”

4. “Even the most beautiful legs – Marlene Dietrich’s, for instance – look better when the kneecap is covered.”

Edith Head Quote: “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.”

5. “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 Quote: “With women, there’s a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.”

6. “With women, there’s a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.”

Edith Head Quote: “Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will – like an instinct.”

7. “Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will – like an instinct.”

Edith Head Quote: “Some people need sequins, others don’t.”

8. “Some people need sequins, others don’t.”

Edith Head Quote: “The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.”

9. “The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.”

Edith Head Quote: “Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.”

10. “Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.”

Edith Head Quote: “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.’”

11. “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 Quote: “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.”

12. “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 Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”

15. “A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”

Edith Head Quote: “Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It’s all part of the business, unfortunately.”

16. “Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It’s all part of the business, unfortunately.”

Edith Head Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.”

18. “Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.”

Edith Head Quote: “My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.”

19. “My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.”

Edith Head Quote: “I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.”

20. “I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.”

Edith Head Quote: “There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.”

21. “There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.”

Edith Head Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “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?”

23. “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 Quote: “Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.”

24. “Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.”

Edith Head Quote: “Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.”

25. “Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.”

Edith Head Quote: “Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!”

26. “Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!”

Edith Head Quote: “There’s no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.”

27. “There’s no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.”

Edith Head Quote: “We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.”

28. “We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.”

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