Quotes About Fashion

Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of?

Spectacles. They were kind of like a hat for smart people.

She wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, 'cuz stuff needed to be kicked.

Perhaps that was the advantage to persistently messy hair--he managed to make it go with anything.

Most people, they didn't understand hats, and Wayne didn't really blame them. Until you'd had a good, lucky hat, you wouldn't understand the value of it.

Vin aceptó la mano, tratando con toda la gracia posible de sacar del carruaje la falda de encajes de su vestido. Mientras descendía con cuidado, tratando de no tropezar, agradeció la mano firme del criado y finalmente se dio cuenta de por qué se esperaba de los hombres que ayudaran a las mujeres a salir de los carruajes. No era una costumbre tonta después de todo: lo tonto era la ropa.

The style was bohemian, but expensive. So, you might sit down on a couch that was soft and comfortable, looked like it had been purchased in the 1970s with its mismatched fabrics and wild color scheme, but then you'd later learn that the couch came from Roche Bobois and cost over forty thousand dollars.

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

am in revolt against the recent fashion of attaching so much weight to political ideology. For the last fifty years, we have paid too much attention to political differences, just as we used to pay too much attention to religious differences.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Noi non veneriamo né le Grazie né le Parche, ma la Moda.

When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates

there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

such are the outward ornaments of the person, for which men are beholden to the taylor, the laceman, the periwig-maker, the hatter, and the milliner, and not to nature.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

The Brighton air used of old to make plain girls pretty and pretty girls prettier still - I don't know whether it works the spell now. (Sir Edmund Orme)

Prettiness is terribly vulgar nowadays, and it is not every one that knows just the sort of ugliness that has chic.

It simply appeared to him proper and reasonable that a well-bred young woman should not carry half her fortune on her back. (...)

She sought to be eloquent in her garments, and to make up for her diffidence of speech by a fine frankness of costume

In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing.

In her tight-fitting Persian dress, with turban to match, she looked ravishing, Spring had come and she had donned a pair of long gloves and a beautiful taupe fur slung carelessly about her full, columnar neck.

When I see some over-dressed yuppie wearing suspenders today, I just smile and think that in some things Papa was ahead of his time.