Quotes About Fashion

My partner and I escaped the chamber with nothing more than a ripped hem (Miss Holmes's), a sagging hairdo (Miss Holmes's), and a broken copper-heeled shoe (also Miss Holmes's).

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Orlando curtseyed; she complied; she flattered the good man's humours as she would not have done had his neat breeches been a woman's skirts, and his braided coat a woman's satin bodice. Thus, there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them' we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.

And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known by her shoes and her gloves.

Così si potrebbe sostenere con qualche ragione che sono gli abiti che portano noi, e non noi che portiamo gli abiti; noi possiamo far sì che essi modellino perbene un braccio, o il petto, ma essi modellano il nostro cuore, i nostri cervelli, le nostre lingue a piacer loro.

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men's talk without listening to it, could think—about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera—without betraying herself. Only it struck Helen that Rachel was perhaps too still for a hostess, and that she might have done something with her hands.

Bond Street fascinated her; Bond Street early in the morning in the season; its flags flying; its shops; no splash; no glitter; one roll of tweed in the shop where her father had bought his suits for fifty years; a few pearls; salmon on an iceblock.

Bond Street la fascinaba; Bond Street muy de mañana en plena temporada; sus banderas ondeando; sus tiendas; sin excesos; sin resplandor; un rollo de tweed en la tienda donde su padre se había comprado los trajes durante cincuenta años; unas cuantas perlas; el salmón encima de un taco de hielo.

As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.

Goodness, what crazy purchases were prompted by the poignant predilection Humbert had in those days for check weaves, bright cottons, frills, puffed-out short sleeves, soft pleats, snug-fitting bodices and generously full skirts! Oh Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties

Mlle Larivière bat alsbald Ada, sie zu einem abgelegenen Plätzchen zu begleiten. Dort nun stand die vollständig angezogene Dame in ihrem voluminösen Kleid, das seinen stattlichen Faltenwurf zwar beibehielt, aber offenbar um einen Zoll länger geworden war, so daß ihre Prünellenschuhe verdeckt wurden, stocksteif über einem verborgenen Platzregen und kehrte im nächsten Moment zu ihrer normalen Größe zurück. [...]

Many fellow exils of mine denounce indignantly (and in this indignation there is a pinch of pleasure) fashionable abominations, including current dances. But fashion is a creature of man's mediocrity, a certain level of life, the vulgarity of equality, and to denounce it means admitting that mediocrity can create something (whether it be a form of government or a new kind of hairdo) worth making a fuss about.

et l'espace d'une seconde il envisagea même de mettre ses tongs en cuir. Personne ne pouvait avoir l'air dangereux en tongs. Larissa, Ione Tome 6 : Guerre.

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

Don't look like a fool with your pants on the ground!

I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.

I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest.

etiquette rule that dictated a woman should put on all the jewelry she intends to wear, then remove one piece before leaving the house. Maybe two pieces, in his case.