Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.

It would be nice to really shed the corsets.

You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no anything delicious.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people - even kicking them!

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

I find clothes so constricting!

I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.

I feel uncomfortable in anything tight or body-con.

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn't bend down to tie my own shoelaces.

Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that's always a clear understanding that I'm not going to feel good that day.

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.