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Quotes About Fashion

I like to look nice when I go to see His Majesty, the Burger King.
~ Maureen Johnson
The best part, without any question, was the tie. I've always liked ties, but it seemed like too much of a Statement to wear them.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was very pretty. It also made Marlene look very demure, which she probably hated. Ideally, Marlene probably wanted an outfit that had a special holder for a gun.
~ Maureen Johnson
David had, in fact, done the Sherlock thing that Stevie had dismissed for herself, specifically, the BBC one. He was wearing a sharply cut blue dress shirt, slender, tailored pants, and a long gray-black coat with a red interior. He had teased out his hair a bit and made sure it curled. In many ways, it was a perfect costume while not being a costume at all. And it was obviously intentional, directed at her.
~ Maureen Johnson
Charles was dressed more casually than normal, in a heavy fleece and sweatpants. Dr. Quinn rose to the occasion in a rose-gray cashmere sweater, a sweeping wool skirt, black cashmere tights, and tall black boots. No amount of cold was going to rob her of her queenly graces. Charles had a look on his face that said, I'm not angry, but I am disappointed. Dr. Quinn's expression said, He's passive-aggressive. I'm not. I am aggressive. I have killed before.
~ Maureen Johnson
for glam and goth and boys who liked glam and goth.
~ Maureen Johnson
Now that the weather had turned more chill, he could cheerfully—or what passed as cheerfully in Nate-adjusted terms—pile on oversized sweaters and baggy cords and scarves until he was a moving pile of natural and synthetic fibers.
~ Maureen Johnson
The naked shoulder was gown's only ornament
~ Ayn Rand
hat with a rolled brim, a short cloak
~ Barbara Erskine
I had decided early on that if I couldn't dress elegant, I'd dress memorable.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
We probably started painting our nails Immoral Coral after everybody sensible had already gone on to pink, but heck, at least we were all behind the times together.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Tappy shoes are not happy shoes, I think
~ Barbara Park
steel Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso Grande Taille
~ Barry Eisler
Even how we dress for work has taken on a new element of choice, and with it, new anxieties.
~ Barry Schwartz
begirt with a flowing kirtle
~ Stephen Leacock
Edwin Hubbell Chapin said: "Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
~ Stephen R. Covey
When you work in the glove department at Neiman's, you are selling things that nobody buys anymore.
~ Steve Martin
Rouge et Noir
~ Steve Martin
The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.
~ Steven Colbert
Shifting culture requires a confluence of inciting incidents. Something directional that leads to a tribal fracturing and reknitting. Often shows up in language first. In music. Fashion. It can feel a little like hope." He points at the images. "This doesn't feel like hope.
~ Steven Kotler