~ The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws ~
~ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ~
~ A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion ~
~ Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich ~
~ Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. ~
~ Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. ~
~ Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. ~
~ Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. ~
~ The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. ~
~ Today, fashion is really about sensuality - how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. ~
~ Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. ~
~ A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ~