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Quotes about fashion
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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. (Willard Frances E.)
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. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. (Willard Frances E.)
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. (Willard Frances E.)
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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. (Willard Frances E.)
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same. (Willard Frances E.)
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. (Willard Frances E.)
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. (Willard Frances E.)
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (Willard Frances E.)
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. (Willard Frances E.)
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. (Willard Frances E.)
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. (Willard Frances E.)
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style. (Willard Frances E.)
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. (Willard Frances E.)
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Willard Frances E.)
Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. (Willard Frances E.)
The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal. (Willard Frances E.)
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. (Willard Frances E.)
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