Quotes About Fashion

Fashion blurbs, silver and full of nothing, sent up their fishy bubbles in my brain. They surfaced with a hollow pop.

May 13 – today I bought a raincoat – no, that was yesterday – yesterday I bought a raincoat with a frivolous pink lining that does good to my eyes because I have never ever had anything pink-colored, and it was much too expensive

spite of the heat, they are always clad completely in black: shoes, stockings, dresses, and, for town shopping, often a black mantilla.

I am in black, dressed more and more often in black now.

not from her dress. Possibly a sweater or outergarment of some kind

Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?

Kleidung war für ihn bisher eben immer nur Kleidung gewesen - man brauchte sie um die Stellen zu bedecken, wo Gott von seinem Geschmack im Stich gelassen worden war.

What the fuck was up with a guy like that? What kind of message was he trying to send? To Kovac, a sweater tied around the neck said gay. Not that he gave a shit. It was just an observation. But then there were these metro guys -- or whatever the hell the fashionable people called them now. Sweater around the neck, manicures, and facials. Mixed messages. He never quite trusted a guy who sent mixed messages. Have a girlfriend or have a boyfriend. Pick a side.

Physical glamour she admired, and an open purse likewise.

Young, handsome, blond as ice, and dressed as splendidly as King Malban himself, if with better taste.

accouterments

At the rectory, she debated acknowledging she was back on the job by wearing clericals, versus pissing the new deacon off by meeting her in her civvies. She compromised by wearing a black blouse, dog collar, and subdued black cardigan over a pair of old undress-green fatigues. "Interesting look," Lois said when Clare checked in for a report on the past week. "It's a clerical mullet," Clare said. "Business on the top, party on the bottom.

CHAPTER 13: WORKING WITH STYLE SHEETS

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

muslin and stepped into it, forgoing the corset. Cursing

Even feminists who never wore a skirt or make-up went crazy about Kickers, or wore beautifully hand-painted boots in rainbow colors; they adorned themselves with rings and long, bright earrings made of feathers, beads or metal—drawing attention with all these, and with their brightly flashed hair, away from the body and toward its periphery.

presente es un extraño y confuso futuro donde chicos con tricotas y muchachas de pelo suelto beben sus cafés crème y se acarician con una lenta gracia de gatos o de plantas.

Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.

Sir William frowned. "Where did you get that jacket?" he asked. Immediately he shook his head and waved his hand dismissively. "No, don't tell me. I've a feeling I don't want to know. Some washing line or laundry basket between here and Marylebone, no doubt.

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

But I have come to believe that Catherine was possessed of a rare grace and inner strength that would have protected her from the jostling fashion crowd, with their sharp

Le Monde gives her name, but refrains from saying that Catherine was related to Christian Dior. The New Yorker article does not refer to Catherine at all; neither does The Times of London, which described the scenes that had been portrayed in court as having taken on 'the aspect of an inferno such as that conjured up by Dante'.