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Quotes About Fashion

I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these words, that it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets; but he was gone.
~ Charles Dickens
But fashions are like human beings. They come in, nobody knows when, why, or how; and they go out, nobody knows when, why, or how. Everything is like life, in my opinion, if you look at it in that point of view.
~ Charles Dickens
I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these words, than it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets, but he was gone.
~ Charles Dickens
Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.
~ Dave Barry
Newsflash: air quotes are out.
~ Mia King, Good Things, 2006
A salad is not a meal. It is a style.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I dined at the Cocoa Tree with Holt... That respectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the first men in the kingdom in point of fashion and fortune, supping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a sandwich, and drinking a glass of punch.
~ Edward Gibbon, 1762
I've been shopping all my life and still have nothing to wear.
~ Author Unknown
If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!
~ Author Unknown
and elegant women who filled the air with perfume and colour like the flowers in front of the Tuileries Palace" (pg. 85)
~ Graham Robb
and it's the creation of Miss Virginia Rappe, a young woman who has lifted fashion designing to the plane of fine art.
~ Greg Merritt
Animals have two functions in today's society, to be delicious and to fit well.
~ Greg Proops
White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.
~ Greg Proops
With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.
~ Groucho Marx
We were the neoromantic dance freaks of the eighties, proudly displaying our blow-dried mullets. Among us, you also found the stud-bracelet-wearing punk rockers with sky-high Mohawks. Pastel-colored, shoulder-padded fashion met ripped-jeans-and-leather-jacket anti-fashion.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Vestía pantalones azules muy ajustados y un suéter de lana. Era fea como un escupitajo, pero muy elegante.
~ Guillermo Fadanelli
Man, like animals, has a natural tendency to imitation. Imitation is a necessity for him, provided always that the imitation is quite easy. It is this necessity that makes the influence of what is called fashion so powerful. Whether in the matter of opinions, ideas, literary manifestations, or merely of dress, how many persons are bold enough to run counter to the fashion?
~ Gustave Le Bon
If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
~ Gwen Stefani
I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
~ Gwen Stefani
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
A woman opened the back door. She wore a black suit and hose; her hair was black, too, pulled straight back, her skin the color of paste, her eyes dark and luminous, as though she had a fever. "I'm Emmeline.
~ James Lee Burke
I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin
~ James Luceno
By nine, Mildred was powdered, puffed, perfumed, and patted to that state of semi-transparency that a woman seems to achieve when she is really dressed to go out.
~ James M. Cain
She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.
~ James McBride