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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
-Charles Dickens
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I dress for women and I undress for men.
-Angie Dickenson
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Nor is the people's judgement always true;
The most may err as grossly as the few.
-John Dryden
Absalom and Achitophel, Pt I. 781
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Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
-Andrea Dworkin
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
-Albert Einstein
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
-Linda Ellerbee
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
-Euripides
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
-Henry Fielding
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Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
-Shelby Foote
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
-Anatole France
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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Good clothes open all doors.
-Thomas Fuller
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
-Baltasar Gracian
The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647
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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 so sorry for them.
-Joyce Grenfell
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The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?
-Katharine Hamnett
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You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
-Shalom Harlow
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
-Michael Harrington
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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
-Mary Hays
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
-William Hazlitt
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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.
-William Hazlitt
Sketches and Essays, 1839
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
-William Hazlitt
The Conversations of James Northcote
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions
-Lillian Hellman
Letter to House Un-American Activities Committee, May 19, 1952
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Books about Fashion
