Quotes About Fashion

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls; Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in; Dresses in which to do nothing at all; Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

I pray—for fashion's word is outAnd prayer comes round again—That I may seem, though I die old,A foolish, passionate man.

December 21, 1845. Sunday.]...Elder Kimball showed the right fashion for a leaf, spoke of Elder Richards being protected at Carthage Jail, having on the robe, while Joseph and Hyrum and Elder Taylor were shot to pieces, said the Twelve would have to leave shortly, for a charge of treason would be brought against them for swearing us to avenge the blood of the anointed ones, and some one would reveal it and we shall have to part some say between sundown and dark.

A hat not much the worse for wear.

This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.

Even Mahatma Gandhi - hardly a comfortable character - always wore a bowler hat with his loin cloth when practising as a barrister in London.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

She removed her gloves and touched the satin shoulder

I was greeted at the Magraths' apartment door by a dumpy, pie-faced woman with a frizz of unsprung black hair. She wore black spandex leggings and an oversized T-shirt with an equally oversized message stamped across the front: Don't Give Me Attitude, I Have One of My Own. This witticism ran six full lines, drawing my eyes southward over her person from wavering bosom to detumescent belly, a journey I regret even now.

Good humour is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

The living room had that depressing look of expensive bad taste.

Nineties style isn't.

Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance.

Mischievous smile. "I remember reading about Calvin Klein's daughter. Every time she pulled down a lover's pants, she was confronted by her father's name on the band of his underwear. A total sex killer.

She was done up like a Christmas tree--over-ripe mouth, beads of mascara thick on her eyelashes, green eyeshadow, a hat with a trailing drape that wound twice around her throat and hung down her back. The only thing missing was a man on a leash.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

Who can say why some arrive and then depart forgotten while others fashion history?