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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
-Henri B. Stendhal
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
-Jonathan Swift
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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.
-Henry David Thoreau
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He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
-Leo Tolstoy
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There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
-Lily Tomlin
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They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
-Anthony Trollope
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I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
-Anthony Trollope
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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
-Mark Twain
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We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.
-Source Unknown
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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.
-John Updike
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It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
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When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
-John Weitz
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You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
-Mae West
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
-Oscar Wilde
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
-Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
-Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
-Oscar Wilde
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
-Oscar Wilde
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!
-P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
-Virginia Woolf
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All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
-Lin Yutang
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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.
-Theodore Zeldin
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Books about Fashion
