Fashion Quotes

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

Leo Tolstoy

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

Alice Meynell

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

David Mamet

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Lord Thomas Dewar

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

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

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

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. This is what the

Albert Einstein

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

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

Society is founded upon cloth.

Thomas Carlyle

If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Thomas Carlyle

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Paul De Man

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.

William Hazlitt, The Conversatio

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.

Nor is the people's judgement always true;The most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop