Quotes About Fashion

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Governor Reagan delivered perhaps the most famous one-liner. A hippie, he said, is someone who dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah.

The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom. Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

He understands muslin

No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!

Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?

She began to curl her hair and long for balls

Man only can be aware of the insensibility of man towards a new gown.

His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly;—he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.

One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

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Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

Ahora deja que te mire, Fanny, y te diga lo mucho que me gustas. Realmente, por lo que puedo juzgar con esta luz, estás muy bonita. ¿Qué te has puesto?

Yes, I know exactly what you will say: Friday, went to the Lower Rooms; wore my sprigged muslin robe with blue trimmings - plain black shoes - appeared to much advantage; but was strangely harassed by a queer, half-witted man, who would make me dance with him, and distressed me by his nonsense

A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion.

Cuán mortificadas se verían muchas damas si de repente se percataran de lo poco que supone la indumentaria femenina, por costosa que sea, para el corazón del varón [...] Todo lo que consigue la mujer al intentar lucir más elegante es satisfacer su propia vanidad, nunca aumentar la admiración de los hombres ni la buena disposición de otras mujeres.

I learnt from Mrs. Tickars's young lady, to my high amusement, that the stays now are not made to force the bosom up at all; that was a very unbecoming, unnatural fashion. I was really glad to hear that they are not to be so much off the shoulders as they were.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

No seriously. She looks like a banana. She's wearing bright yellow and brown. It's making me hungry just looking at her.

teardrop necklace.

My favorite color is fuschia. That's a fancy way of saying purple.

Mary had nice clothes, too, ones she had worked hard for over the summer

She dressed to look good, and I dressed for obscurity.