Learn English – the meaning of peotic sentence about woman’s dresses

meaning-in-context

Aaron say this words to Robert about woman's dresses:

I had this girl, Tina. She said the dress made the woman. I say the
woman makes the dress.

Sentence is taken from movie Entrapment (1999), My Doubt: How can a Dress(non-living) made the Woman(living creature)?

I heard English sentences earlier like this: Dress made woman beautiful, but above sentence doesn't make any sense to me.

Best Answer

It's one of those "Does the woman make the dress or does the dress make the woman?" questions.

The simple explanation is that "perfect dressing will always identify your personality". This is an idiom much like "clothes make the man"

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