Quotes About Style

Ellen followed his progress, thinking of all those young men who believed it was fashionable to wear their pants hanging half off their butts and loose enough to fit an entire basketball team. They should see the way a real man wore jeans.

I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives 'beautifully'--not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been a prerequisite), but in the droll fortitude of their perseverance. They got the work done, with style.

Prefer the active voice unless there's a good reason for using the passive

A Russian fashion consultant once told me that fashion stops at the Siberian border, where instead of showing off, the prerogative is survival. The

If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign

The Italian-owned Benetton label, for example, manufactures its entire clothing line in white. Once the clothes are delivered to distribution centers, Benneton's analysts assess what color or length is in vogue, at which point workers dye and cut the company's shirts, jackets, pants and infant apparel to replicate the style and color preferences popular at the time.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Gli uomini si vestono di nero e di grigio. Qualcuno osa con colori autunnali e camicie variopinte. E' il problema degli uomini: vogliono essere presi sul serio, quindi pensano di dover far credere che sono privi di fantasia.

Hudson's house. It was bungalow style with a stone façade

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse

And then came a long interregnum devoted to the arts and mysteries of the toilet.

Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.

Once we begin our journey, it would be appropriate if you show a groveling desire to please your employer." Juliet raised her eyebrows loftily. "I was planning on being the sort of servant who is erratic and unreliable, but who won't let you be cheated by anyone other than myself." "That does sound more your style than groveling," he said with a hint of a smile.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in which they are involved, and on the description of their situations.

I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyse.

I didn't think of the mini as sexual but as an instrument of liberation. I wanted to make clothes that you could move in, skirts you could run and dance in, but, of course, wearing clothes like that made you feel and look sexy.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

It makes no difference what you wear, really. I'll put you in a dark grey. I believe I have some left over from a funeral." says the dressmaker.

The Hawaiian shirts fairly scream to be put on,

Hmm. I'll need my Always Waterproof Fashion Ostrich Leash.