Fashion Quotes

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

David Bailey

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

When in doubt, wear red.

Bill Blass

How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.

Proverb

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Louisa May Alcott

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Coco Chanel

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Henry Miller

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.

Bettina Ballard

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Bertrand Russell

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.

Jim Henson

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Mary Hays

We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind.

Source Unknown

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Lord Chesterfield

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

Will Rogers