Quotes About Fashion

Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftanOf tan with henna hackles, halt!

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

When the shows begin in Milan for the season, every woman and girl in modeling heads there, along with every woman and girl who's ever dreamed of becoming a model. Suddenly the city is mobbed by extremely tall mutant women, running everywhere like ants.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Their neatly barbered hair and tailored coats and silk ties contrasted strikingly with

Mrs. Ellis opened her black alligator pocketbook and took out a black cigarette, which she lit with a black enameled Dunhill lighter. She pecked, sucked, blew smoke.

Robinson in Glen plaid jacket, Scotch-grain shoes,Black four-in-hand and oxford button-down,The jeweled and silent watch that winds itself, the brief-Case, covert topcoat, clothes for spring, all coveringHis sad and usual heart, dry as a winter leaf.

He wore tight red slacks and a white shirt. His body, I could see, was impeccably shaped.

In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

the number of models per square foot here on South Beach was higher than anywhere else in the world and that commercial and film shoots were common.

The hangers that held his hanging clothes had been aligned in the same direction. All of it had been arranged by color.

ladies' clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.

Jane Doe had three pierced right ears and two pierced left.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

Accept it with the nude that is in you and you will always be in fashion."

The happiness of a mannequin is to be in a shop window."

The scarecrow is always in fashion."

The scarecrow never goes out of style."

The scarecrow's self-esteem turns rags into fashion.

The mannequin is always in fashion."

The scarecrow has its own stylist."