FASHION QUOTES IV

quotations about fashion

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

The Divine Comedy


Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

QUENTIN CRISP

Wisdom for the Soul


Fashion is a striving to overcome the spatial divide between classes, to overcome the invidious comparisons between "them and us", to catch up and overtake the "in crowd". In other words, what it would like to do is to abolish the very incline that enables the fashion dynamic to exist.

MICHAEL CARTER

Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes


The irrational aspect of fashion is very important; fashion provides a field for the expression of fetishistic and magical impulses and beliefs.

ELIZABETH WILSON

"Fashion and Modernity"


If we were all wise we should do well; but are we not too silly yet to be left free to follow each her own desires? The very foolishness of our fashions, I am afraid proves this; and the almost as striking foolishness of our dissent shows how little we can combine revolt with prudence, and how our opposition to black is not necessarily white.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

"The Follies of Fashion", Ourselves, Essays on Women


Fashion is the sorceress to whose spell we all succumb, the tyrant whose will not one of us dares dispute, the ignis fatuus whose wavering flame we follow, indifferent to the nature of the ground through which we are led. Bog or brake--what does it matter? so long as we go precisely as we are told, and obey that mysterious and capricious leader of ours, we are all right; and if we do fall into odd places meanwhile, that is not our own fault but rather the misfortune of the times.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

"The Follies of Fashion", Ourselves, Essays on Women


Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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But what can we say of the fashion which dyes the hair, paints the cheeks, blackens the eyelids with antimony to make the orbit look larger and the lashes longer, or that expands the pupils with belladonna, no matter at what cost of complexion or future eyesight? What too can we say of the fashion which uncovers the arms and neck in the evening after having clothed them through the day in flannel, or velvet, or in warm wadded stuffs? Women threatened with bronchitis or rheumatism sit all day long in a warm room muffled up to the throat in thick material; at night they uncover below their shoulders, and go out in the cold winter air with just an opera cloak thrown over their shivering skins. But this is fashion; and none of us dare disobey it; none of us dare go out in the evening with dresses made after the pattern of our morning ones, or wear in the morning low bodices and short sleeves to at least equalize the risk, and inure us to the evening attire without damage. There is no intrinsic reason why we should not all be sitting in low-bodices and short sleeves at this very moment, though we will make it ten o'clock; but if we were, we should be thought mad or bad or both, and not even our staunchest friends would stand by us.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

"The Follies of Fashion", Ourselves, Essays on Women


Fashion! -- a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Rosciad

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Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

BOOTH TARKINGTON

The Magnificent Ambersons


Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich.

NICOLAS CHAMFORT

attributed, Many Thoughts of Many Minds

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Fashion is a product of a society with more than one class in it and where upward movement between classes is both possible and desirable. Thus it would seem that, as soon as this kind of society exists, as soon as modern, capitalist society exists, fashion exists.

MALCOLM BARNARD

Fashion as Communication


We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Most fashionable ladies are as diamonds because they are more costly than useful.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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There are certain things that even fashion cannot justify.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN

The Optimist

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The fashion industry is not interested in making women feel better about themselves. Fashion is about making people want something they are unlikely to get ... and any satisfaction achieved is fleeting and faintly disappointing.

HADLEY FREEMAN

Guardian, Sep. 9, 2009


Fashion is political, especially when you're in a marginalized community. We have been left out of fashion since forever. But now we're getting a foothold. I think it is political for a fat woman to wear a bikini or a crop top or to basically exist in a world that's telling them that they should not exist.

GABI GREGG

interview, Cosmopolitan, December 11, 2017


One had as good be out of the world, as out of fashion.

COLLEY CIBBER

Love's Last Shift

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Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought