Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion — it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
Society is founded upon cloth.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
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.
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, OutrT (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
When in doubt, wear red.
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
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