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Quotes About Fashion

The clothes make the man.
~ Latin proverb
Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!
~ Robert Herrick
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
~ William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is his clothes.
~ William Shakespeare
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
~ Jonathan Swift
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink.
~ Anonymous
A love of fashion makes the economy go round.
~ Liz Tilberis
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
~ Stendhal
"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
~ Richard Hofstadter
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
~ Jean Cocteau
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
~ Edna Woolman Chase
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
~ Eric Bentley
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
~ Baltasar Gracian
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
~ William Shakespeare
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Fashions fade - style is eternal.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
~ La Rochefoucauld
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
~ William Shakespeare
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
~ Oscar Wilde
I've been on every diet in the world. The best one is the BBC diet: Buy Bigger Clothes.
~ Gary Owens
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
~ George Santayana
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
~ Dan Harmon
I try to look cute all the time.
~ Sloane Stephens