Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

The hat is the common headgear of the Turkish people, and the government forbids habits to the contrary.

I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.

BJP should direct our Ministers to wear traditional and modernised Indian clothes while abroad. In coat and tie, they look like waiters.

There are a few things a true gentleman cannot live without. The black silk knitted square-bottom tie is just such an indispensable item. No true gentlemen would be without one.

I'd never worn a tie before. I was a bushman.

Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake.

In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.

I don't wear the sash to bed. But I make sure it is always clean. I have it in two colors, black and gray. And I make sure it goes with my outfit.

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

One needs determination to bring in changes in the lives of Devadasis. I would approach them wearing pants and t-shirt and without a bindi, they would chase me away. When I narrated the experience to my father, he told me to don traditional wear and dress like them. After bringing in changes in my dressing style, the Devadasis welcomed me.

If it were up to me, I would wear a peshwas and a gharara everywhere.

I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

I was like, 'I would like to see everybody dress beautifully.'

I don't really wear sarees and suits.

There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.

The more conservative you dress, the more you can get away with.

You don't wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.

I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains.

It might be the wish of many people that Allahabad can be renamed as Prayagraj. I think that it will give a very good message.