Quotes About Fashion

There was something touching about the fact that Murray was dressed almost totally in corduroy.

Is a cardigan what women wear when they don't want to talk about themselves?

We still want what we want. We want a haircut.

Legwarmers lend a note of paramilitary poise, a hint of archaic warriorhood.

I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look at my watch. The simple act of checking the time is transformed by this flourish. Decorative gestures add romance to a life.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

Sometimes it's good to shake up the status quo. You just have to make sure that when you turn society on its ear, you don't end up on your coutoure-covered backside.--vivian

A man without a sense of fashion is a man without a soul.

I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

This is the East Coast, boy. I know they're pretty laissez-faire about dress in your neck of the woods, but back here 52. they don't let you run around in your bathing suit all year long. Blacks and blues, that's the ticket, blacks and blues… (Bunny Corcoran to Richard Papen)

It made me think of the nice old Marimekko-clad ladies I sometimes went to see in the Ritz Tower: gravel-voiced, turban-wearing, panther-braceleted widows looking to move to Miami, their apartments filled with smoked-glass and chromed-steel furniture that, in the seventies, they'd purchased through their decorators for the price of a good Queen Anne--but (I was responsible for telling them, reluctantly) had not held its value and could not be re-sold at even half what they'd bought it for.

her hair pulled back in one of those tremendous preppy bows from the Talbots catalogue.

I hate Gucci," said Francis. "Do you?" said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. "Really? I think it's rather grand." "Come on, Henry." "Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.

Men got all the comfortable clothing trends.

Not surprisingly, skilled Muscogee hunters quickly became the supply side of the deerskin trade. On the demand side was all of Europe, where deer had already been so badly overhunted that gloves in Paris were reportedly being made with rat skins. Before the era of denim, there were deer-leather breeches, and just as with blue jeans, these buckskins were worn first by laborers and then came into fashion among the aristocracy.

poodle clipping.

Her pants were so tight that if you cut her she wouldn't bleed

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

dressed in mourning—in white—according to the custom in royal families in those days,

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided that she didn't look so damn good in them.

In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided she didn't look so damn good in them.