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The fashion wears out more appearel than a man-
William shakespeare
You get out of fashion what you put into it, just as you do out of life. If you want only its rewards, and reject its
disciplines, you're stuck where you start.
--Loretta Young
"Much the greater part of those who pretend to laugh at foppery and formality, secretly wish to have possessed those qualifications
which they pretend to despise; and because they find it difficult to wash away the tincture which they have so deeply imbibed,
endeavour to harden themselves in a sullen approbation of their own colour. Neutrality is a state, into which the busy passions
of man cannot easily subside; and he who is in danger of the pangs of envy, is generally forced to recreate his imagination
with an effort of comfort."
Johnson: Adventurer #131 (February 5, 1754)
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
--Loretta Young
There is never a new fashion but its old-
Geoffrey Chaucer
"I have found by long experience, that there are few enterprises so hopeless as contests with the fashion, in which the opponents
are not only made confident by their numbers and strong by their union, but are hardened by contempt of their antagonist,
whom they always look upon as a wretch of low notions, contracted views, mean conversation, and narrow fortune, who envies
the elevations which he cannot reach, who would gladly imbitter the happiness which his inelegance or indigence deny him to
partake, and who has no other end in his advice than to revenge his own mortification by hindering those whom their birth
and taste have set above him, from the enjoyment of their superiority, and bringing them down to a level with himself." Johnson:
Rambler #15 (May 8, 1750
Fashion for the most part is nothing the ostenation of the riches-
John Locke
"Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity [in a library],
most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered, and owed the honours which they once obtained, not to judgment
or to genius, to labour or to art, but to the prejudice of faction, the strategems of intrigue, or the servility of adulation.
Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries
as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science."
Johnson: Rambler #106 (March 23, 1751)
Fashion is what you adopt when you dont know who you are-
Quentin Crisp
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.
--Stella Blum
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character-
Loretta Young
Fashion is made to become unfashionable-
Coco Chanel
Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties wemon used suits with
exaggerated shoulders and waistes to make a strong impression. Wemon are now more comfortable with themselves and their
bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their cloths.
--Donna Karan
"Whatever diversion is costly will be frequented by those who desire to be thought rich; and whatever has, by any accident,
become fashionable, easily continues its reputation, because every one is ashamed of not partaking it."
Johnson: Idler
#18 (August 12, 1758)
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