Fashion

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

"Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom."

"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous."

"By way of providing a substitute for real—I mean intellectual—superiority, which is seldom to be met with, and intolerable when it is found, society has capriciously adopted a false kind of superiority, conventional in its character, and resting upon arbitrary principles,—a tradition, as it were, handed down in the higher circles, and, like a password, subject to alteration; I refer to bon-ton fashion. Whenever this kind of superiority comes into collision with the real kind, its weakness is manifest. Moreover, the presence of good tone means the absence of good sense."

"The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers."

"Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too, That, sure, they've worn out Christendom."

"You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments."

"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."

"I'll be at charges for a looking-glass, And entertain some score or two of tailors, To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favour with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost."

"Only great minds can afford a simple style."

"Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blond beach bunny or a Playboy model."

"The pull of fashion has always been that of the stampeding herd."

"It's dangerous to have fashion and power."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"As long I've got my suit and tie, I'm going to leave it out on the floor tonight."

"You're dressed in that dress, I like. Love is swinging in the air, tonight."

"Fashion made a harsh mistress."

"Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live."

"Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing."

"I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll."

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

"Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"It’s better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk."

"Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again."

"As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion."

"The fashion of this world passeth away."