Selected fashion quotes

1. My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

2. Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

3. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

4. I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

5. Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

6. The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

7. The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

8. Tits always look better in a pink sweater.

9. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

10. They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

11. Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

12. Ornaments were invented by modesty.

13. You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

14. There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

15. I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

16. Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.

17. I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

18. It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.

19. It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

20. As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

21. The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

22. Bravery never goes out of fashion.

23. 'I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.'

24. 'I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.'

25. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

26. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

27. So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

28. I don't know who invented High heels but all women owe him a lot.

29. 'Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.'

30. Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

31. You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers 'too clitty' and use words like 'pussy pelmet' but they do. You are so shocked by what they are saying that by the time you have recovered and thought of something to say they have whipped you out of your jeans and eased you into a Lycra cat suit.

32. A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

33. 'People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.'

34. The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

35. If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

36. I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

37. Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is. (309)

38. A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with the outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

39. They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.

40. Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh how that glittering taketh me!

41. If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much -- just an occasional sun visor.

42. I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

43. What dreadful Hot weather we have!-It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.

44. It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

45. Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

46. As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

47. 'Dear Miss Manners: How is a hat correctly worn?

48. 'Ralph Lauren was borin' before I worn him'

49. You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

50. Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

51. They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

52. And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

53. A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

54. And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

55. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

56. Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

57. She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

58. Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.

59. 'Don't you like this hat?' 'No, sir.' 'Well, I do,' I replied rather cleverly, and went out with it tilted just that merest shade over the left eye which makes all the difference.

60. Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

61. Ten years ago, you could have traveled thousands of miles through the United States and never seen a baseball cap turned back to front. Today, the reverse baseball cap is ubiquitous. I do not know what the pattern of geographical spread of the reverse baseball cap precisely was, but epidemiology is certainly among the professions primarily qualified to study it.

62. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

63. I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

64. Our bios are sort of similar, but guys in rock bands all wear T-shirts and jeans and nobody ever says they're all the same.

65. 'Make them read that it is no longer the fashion to wear birds upon hats. That will afford relief to your poor milliner and at the same time set free thousands of our darling birds who have been so cruelly used.' Popopo thanked the wise king and followed his advice. The office of every newspaper and magazine in the city was visited by the knook, and then he went to other cities, until there was not a publication in the land that had not a 'new fashion note' in its pages. Sometimes Popopo enchanted the types, so that whoever read the print would see only what the knook wished them to. Sometimes he called upon the busy editors and befuddled their brains until they wrote exactly what he wanted them to. Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. The following morning when the poor milliner looked over her newspaper she was overjoyed to read that 'no woman could now wear a bird upon her hat and be in style, for the newest fashion required only ribbons and laces.'

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