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You've got pretty good taste." She pulled out a suit, looked at it, put it back, pulled out another. "I can remember, you always wore good suits, good-looking suits, even before you were rich.""I like suits," he said. "They feel good. I like Italian suits, actually. I've had a couple of British suits, and they were okay, but they felt ... constructed. Like I was wearing a building. But the Italians - they know how to make a suit.""Ever try French suits?""Yeah, three or four times. They're okay, but a little ... sharp-looking. They made me feel like a watch salesman.""How about American suits?":Efficient," he said. "Do the job; don't feel like much. You always wear an American suit if you don't want people to notice you.
— John Sandford, Secret Prey
There are no good tights, It´s all such a rare sight... Gently, I put one in. Holes are within! They´re only good for a fight.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.
— Elizabeth Hawes, Fashion is Spinach
Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.
— Christian Dior, The Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman
Don't let anything be too much for you
— Claudia Pegus
I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.
— Mary Balogh, Dancing with Clara
There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the rules of the day. And because the range was so narrow, people were always looking out for the tiniest variations. It was a real test of ingenuity to look different and attractive, and yet similar enough to everyone else so that nobody with an accusing finger could pinpoint what exactly was heretical.
— Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin’t about being naked.
— Marc Jacobs
Fashion sells education is sold.
— Amit Abraham
You've got pretty good taste." She pulled out a suit, looked at it, put it back, pulled out another. "I can remember, you always wore good suits, good-looking suits, even before you were rich.""I like suits," he said. "They feel good. I like Italian suits, actually. I've had a couple of British suits, and they were okay, but they felt ... constructed. Like I was wearing a building. But the Italians - they know how to make a suit.""Ever try French suits?""Yeah, three or four times. They're okay, but a little ... sharp-looking. They made me feel like a watch salesman.""How about American suits?""Efficient," he said. "Do the job; don't feel like much. You always wear an American suit if you don't want people to notice you.
— John Sandford, Secret Prey
And again and again, why, oh why, Joe Rosenthal, were you so surprised when skirts got long and waists natural? For three long years it had been coming. It was a style, Mr. Rosenthal. Style is never unpredictable. But Rosenthal and Levine are not occupied with style. They believe that everything changes twice a year and they want it to. Otherwise people wouldn't have to buy so many clothes. Nor are the manufacturers occupied with quality because it wears and makes future buying unnecessary. They are not concerned with whether clothes are useful or beautiful or functional. That, apparently, is not a part of their job.
— Elizabeth Hawes, Fashion is Spinach
After all, the butt of Fashion's dirtiest jokes is the public. The present American boast, that all women can be beautifully dressed if they choose, has been so clearly stated in so many ways for so long a time, that a large number of American women believe themselves to be beautifully dressed who are actually horrors to behold. Take those $10.75 copies of the dresses worn by the Duchess of Windsor in the summer of 1937. You could tell by the look on the faces of the American girls who wore them that they really felt beguiling enough to snatch off a Duke because they had a modified silhouette corresponding to that of a Duchess. The actual dress, stinted on material, cheaply imitated as to print design, bad in color and ill-fitting, was a horror to behold. You may say, if the girl feels like a Duchess, what more do you ask? I say, she looks to me like the worst mass-pro- duced imitation of a Duchess I can imagine, and it just isn't pretty.
— Elizabeth Hawes, Fashion is Spinach
It's, All in fashion.
— Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)
The bedlamite little hats in which American women have tried to out-lunatic each other for the past four years prove conclusively we don't dress to please anyone. We're just docile sheep who accept what's given us.
— Beatrice Fairfax
He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
Yes," I continued, "I discovered this model recently and her style never fails to be mathematically perfect. She seems to come by it naturally. As if she were born resonant. I notice Japanese models tend to do this. Like I said, they seem to have resonance somewhere deep in their culture. But Yuri Nakagawa, she's the best I've ever seen. The best model, with the most powerful resonance. I need her to probe deeper into this profound mathematical instinct, which I call resonance.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley: The Next Great Detective
I love jewelry because, no matter how much weight I gain or lose, it always fits.Sorry I'm not notable person, but this quote got a lot of "Likes" on Facebook.
— Ellen Pleasants
Come now, Tichy. For half a century civilization hasn't been left to its own devices. A hundred years ago a certain Dior was dictating fashions in clothing. Today this sort of regulating has embraced all walks of life. If prostheticism is voted in, I assure you, in a couple of years everyone will consider the possession of a soft, hairy, sweating body to be shameful and indecent. A body needs washing, deodorizing, caring for, and even then it breaks down, while in a prostheticized society you can snap on the loveliest creations of modern engineering. What woman doesn't want to have silver iodide instead of eyes, telescoping breasts, angel's wings, iridescent legs, and feet that sing with every step?
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
To be irreplaceable you have to be different.
— Coco Chanel
It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.
— Ruth Reichl, Delicious!
They took they hit the cobblestone streets to look at churches, with Isabella wearing suede Manolos. "She's breaking her legs and I tell her it's just ridiculous and that she had to get some proper shoes." She bought and put on a pair of espadrilles and promptly broke into tears. "I can't. I can't. Everytime I look down on my feet I feel so depressed." Roberts said, "Well, are you going to be depressed or are you going to have a broken ankle?" "I am going to have a broken ankle" she said and she threw the shoes away.
— Lauren Goldstein Crowe, Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion
Why Dont You?' wasn't totally absurd to me," Diana said later. "Of course, the columns had a certain absurdity that tickled people -- just to think that anyone would thin of writing anything so absurd. But it wasn't even writing. To me writing--Edith Wharton, Henry James...Proust, for God's sake...is a think of beauty and sustainment. 'Why Don't You?' was a think of fashion and fantasy, on the wing...It wasn't writing, it was just ideas. It was me, insistent on people using their imaginations, insisting on a certain idea of luxury.
— Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
In this instance, however, the answer was quite straightforward: "Men want women beautiful, romantic... birds of paradise instead of hurrying brown hens," said Bazaar in October 1945. As families were reestablished, there was a move toward a celebratory fashion of fecundity, with closer-fitting waists and rounder hips.
— Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland
The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.
— Brenda Cooper, Edge of Dark
Normally, all I'm interested in is what the person has created. Hopefully they're not a mass murderer or mass rapist, but their personality is not important to me at that stage. They've got to be pretty extraordinary to make things like that anyway.
— Isabella Blow
I'm not proud to admit I once owned a fringed cowgirl jacket.
— Isabella Blow
To express oneself fluently involves more than simply speaking the language properly. It includes inflection, voice, posture, gestures, and clothing. All of these elements add up to an individual’s personal expression. They are the elements of style.
— Kate Betts
Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.
— Gail Carriger, Heartless
And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
If you cannot walk more than a block in your shoes, they are not shoes; they are pretty sculptures that you happen to have attached to your feet. You could hang them from your wrists for all the good they are doing you in terms of locomotion. Better to put them on a shelf and admire them from afar.
— Linda Przybyszewski, The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind
—  as are the legacies of those who flow with them.
Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.''Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.
— Chris Campanioni, Tourist Trap
She first peered into its fascinating cases of beetles and butterflies at the age of six, in the company of her father. She recalls her pity at each occupant pinned for display. It was no great leap to draw the same conclusion of ladies: similarly bound and trussed, pinned and contained, with the objective of being admired, in all their gaudy beauty.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
Adorn yourself with modest dressing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I dress to withstand the elements. I dress to be as interesting as the Tate. I dress to insert myself into social strata, to be accepted, to pass.
— Caitlynn Cummings
I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin
— James Luceno, Tarkin
You can have the most expensive clothes and still lack style
— Evy Michaels
Oi, doll, ignore him,' said Sia, using a notebook to fan her face. 'Sweet lord, I'm like a human hot-water bottle wrapped in doona in front of a heater at the moment. And did I tell you about the constant farting?
— Gabrielle Tozer, Faking It
You limit your options every time you don't try your best.
— Stacy London
Content people give fashion a life. All the rest seek a life from fashion.
— Newton G Kibiringi
She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.
— E.E. Giorgi, CHIMERAS
I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.
— Harper Lee
We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.
— Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
— Alexander McQueen
Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
— Nora Ephron
Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.
— Lilly Pulitzer
He who seeks beauty will find it.
— Bill  Cunningham
I don't believe in wearing track pants unless you are in an actual athletic situation.
— Carrie Mesrobian, Sex & Violence
Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazines, their hair feathered in a style I struggled to believe was ever in fashion.
— Valentine Glass, Between Kay and You: A Bisexual Girl's Cumming-of-Age Confession
As long as you wear clothes you love, which suit your body and your personality, it won’t matter if you’re wearing a dress that was in vogue five years ago; you’ll still look amazing. Also, somebody has to START new trends, and that somebody could be you.
— Rosie Blythe, The Princess Guide to Life
But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.
— Michael Crichton
Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.
— Anthony Trollope, Dr. Thorne
And sometimes," she added, in a slightly hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference.
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
I love the fashion which is out of fashion.
— Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2
Hoffland, as it was called, was, next to Moda Polska (simply “Polish Fashion”) one of the rare examples of the quasi-private, though officially nationalized fashion companies in Poland. Both have survived communism, and Hoff kept designing well into the 90s. You could be sure, that if Hoff wrote about a new style for wearing a shawl in her column, the same afternoon there would already be dozens of girls on the streets trying to copy this style. Her flagship idea was blackening the “coffin shoes” (i.e. light, paper shoes, used as footwear for the deceased) which when colored black could pass as elegant “ballerinas”.
— Agata Pyzik, Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.
— Tim Heaton
London is speared by the tube map of fashion zone: zone one is classic-edgy, zone two is edgy-dowdy while the counties do a classic, edgy, dowdy hotch potch - epitomised so beautifully by Kate Moss.
— Tyne O'Connell
I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.
— Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
The message sent by this policy is that if women are to be accepted into the exclusive ranks of men, then they have to look like men: buttoned up, stuffy, and no-nonsense. As if to show a little cleavage, to highlight a curvaceous figure, or to in any way appear feminine would discount, discredit, and disqualify them.I strongly disagree with this idea. I feel that women should wear clothes that suit their bodies rather than forcing themselves into unflattering men's suits and that it is feminist to make a wide range of women's clothes acceptable business attire.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
— George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Speaking of high-end shoe designers, in 2011 it was fascinating to see the design company of Christian Louboutin try to stop the company Yves Saint Laurent from producing high heels with red soles, claiming that Louboutin was the originator of the red sole. Louboutin lost, and I was glad. He was not the first person to paint a sole, and I am wary of patenting a color, like Tiffany blue. Why should we grant that entire history to Louboutin and say there are no predecessors and should be no successors?
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequently a show of sexism—as if something that's traditionally a concern of women isn't valid as a field of academic inquiry. When the Parsons fashion department was founded in 1906, it was called 'costume design,' because fashion was then a verb: to fashion. But the word 'fashion' has evolved to mean something much more profound, and those who resist it seem to me to be on the wrong side of history.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.
— Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds
Whether they come from Brooks Brothers or a thrift store, the sweaters we wear have a magnificent ancestry. Their history spans the worlds of Irish fishermen, French knights, World War I soldiers, busty Hollywood 'sweater girls,' and the television saint Mr. Rogers. That history lives in each garment. By being aware of it, we can better appreciate what we have.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
A T-shirt is a T-shirt. Spending hundreds of dollars on it doesn't elevate it. He was under-dressed, even if his casual outfit did cost more than my suit and tie.I once had another fashion victim tell me, 'This T-shirt cost twelve thousand dollars!'What difference does that make? If that's the message you want to send about yourself and your fashion sense, you should wear the price tag, or that should be the message on your T-shirt: 'Hi. This T-shirt costs more than a semester of college.' Or: 'Hi. I have money to burn. Please help me get rid of all this wealth.' And my shirt, in turn, would say, 'Great. Please write a $12,000 check to charity.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
Normality is the new eccentric.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
In 1916, Infants' and Children's Wear Review insisted upon pink for boys and blue for girls. In 1939, Parents magazine claimed that pink was a good color for boys because it was a pale version of red, which was the color of Mars, the war god. Blue was good for girls because it was the color of Venus, and of the Virgin Mary. So, pink for girls is a relatively recent trend, and utterly random.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
Feminine is never out of style
— Sandra - More Style Than Fashion
A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit
Just so you know a weapon, a body armour can never be a fashion accessory.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Soldier's fashion accessory is his weapon just like a jewelry for women.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Fashion is all about madness.
— Reiss Field
I don't do fashion, i am fashion
— Gabrielle coco Chanel
In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn't want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for you, your wardrobe, and your lifestyle.
— Tim Gunn, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet
What did she think she understood about him? His gorgeous appearance was only the first layer, yet it was one that she savored now as if she had been hungry for it all of her life. Α wealth of lace and silk on a man was something she had always taken for granted. It spoke of power and social status, vital to the structure of society. Yet Alden had turned it into something elseHis appearance was both beautiful and witty, almost as if he celebrated the irony of hiding masculine muscle beneath such essentially feminine frippery. For a woman to put her hand on a man's sleeve and feel the hard tension of his arm beneath the silk was intensely erotic. Perhaps no age had ever been as blatantly sensual as this one. No wonder men like Alden reveled in it, reaping woman after woman like a scythe harvesting flowers.
— Julia Ross, The Seduction
Fashion and public relations share a charter to turn life to their own advantage, to make malleable and commercially useful the naked human perception. Both interests consider life too small, dull, and colorless to get itself sufficiently noticed without the lobbying efforts of professionals.
— Kennedy Fraser
I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.
— Emmanuelle Alt
The happiness of being envied is glamour.Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
— John Berger, Ways of Seeing
Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined the suit living a life of tea parties and lunches with the girls at the Ivy
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.
— Tyne O'Connell
Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.
— Reiss Field
I find, the fancier the fashion magazine is, the worse the Photoshop. It’s as if they are already so disgusted that a human has to be in the clothes, they can’t stop erasing human features.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS
— Diana Vreeland, Glamour
New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone - it suited her deliberate nature and the artistic joy with which she approached all things aesthetic.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
— Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
And is not all of life material- based on the material- permeated by the material? Should not one learn, gladly, to utilize the beauty of the fine material? I do not speak of the gross crudities of soporific television, of loud brash convertibles and vulgar display- but rather of grace and line and refinement- and there are wonderful and exciting things that only money can buy, such as theater tickets, books, paintings, travel, lovely clothes- and why deny them when one can have them? The only problem is to work, to stay awake mentally and physically, and NEVER become mentally, physically, spiritually flabby or over complacent!
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?
— Madi Brown, The Truth About Emily
I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the eye of the beholder. Judging art on a point system in the first place seems totally ridiculous! But since I grew up in such a competitive, point-awarding world, I wanted the grand prize more than anything. I wanted to be number one and get all the glory. Glory, huh... how stupid!
— Ai Yazawa, Paradise Kiss, Vol. 4
Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside.
— Joseph Roach, It
Can Flo come? She has so many clothes I really want her to get rid of.' I laugh. Flo's clothes are so funny. She buys one top and wears it every time we go out for six months, then buys another one and does the same. And the kinds of things she buys for school are boring. She gets things that look as close to school uniform as possible because she finds having to wear our own clothes every day so hard.
— Dawn O'Porter, Goose
All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities" would have looked hopelessly naive in New York. Sylvia wanted to be hard and urban.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Sylvia’s inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters…….she wrote beautifully about clothes. She wrote about them with irony and wit mixed in with all the rococo prettiness.
— Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
Fashion is not the latest trends. Because every trend is not for everyone.It is what suits you".
— Reiss Field
I hate physical effort.
— Emmanuelle Alt
Antoinette had squinty eyes she could barely open under the six pounds of mascara and teal eye shadow she must’ve applied with a paint roller, and lips that were puckered on a permanent basis as if she were storing lemons in the deep recesses of her jowls. She smelled like a bull that got loose in a perfume shop, and had pointy high heeled shoes that threatened to burst out the sides at any moment from the pressure of being three sizes too small.
— Nicole  Castle, Les Recidivists
What kind of look are you going for?” he asked instead. “Clothed.
— J.R. Ward, The King
Magnus had animated one of his magnificent Chinese fans, and it flapped ineffectively at him, barely stirring the breeze. It was, if he was completely honest with himself (and he did not want to be), a bit too hot for this new striped blue-and-rose-colored coat, made of taffeta and satin, and the silk faille waistcoat embroidered with a scene of birds and cherubs. The wing collar, and the wig, and the silk breeches, the wonderful new gloves in the most delicate lemon yellow . . . it was all a bit warm.Still. If one could look this fabulous, one had an obligation to. One should wear everything, or one should wear nothing at all.
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
— James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success was costly, but clearly the choice of an uncompromising woman determined to achieve greatness on her own. She once said, "I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
— Lynn Steward
Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas....Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another.
— William Gibson, Zero History
May your Valentine’s Day be filled with adoration, pampering, and a pair of gorgeous, tiny-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals that are completely useless in this weather. Just remember: You are totally worth it.
— Cecily von Ziegesar, Because I'm Worth It
I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.
— Sara Sheridan
The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.
— Phil Strongman, Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk
The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons - to make good design, not become stars.
— Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.
— Jeffrey Tucker
As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.
— Doug Glanville, The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View
Anyone can wear anything in fashion, as long as is worn by a celebrity they love.
— Stevens Rakgogo
Fashion design gives you an opportunity to express how you feel".
— Stevens Rakgogo
A man who doen't wear a black suite, is not a real man".
— Stevens Rakgogo
Berlinerinnen also continue to reinvent Berlin fashion. Women like Claudia Skoda, c.neeon (Clara Kraetsch and Doreen Schultz), Stadtkluft (Claudine Brignot of urbanspeed and Sandra Siewert of s.wert) and Natascha Loch carry on the tradition of Berliner Chic and carry its meanings into today's fashion. Berlinerinnen will always be ready to wear: the women who live in the city, are photographed in its streets, wear local brands and give Berlin fashion its reputation as exigeant and schraeg. Without all of these women, there would be no Berliner Chic, and so it is to them that this project is dedicated.
— Katrina Sark, Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion
Peter eyes his swanky and incredibly dated jacket and fluffs the frills on his sleeves. Outside the window stands a guy in a tattered grey hoodie and cut-offs that slide down to his hips, thus exposing the plaid glory of his boxers. “Damn pity. If I'd known what crimes I'd be exposed to under the guise of fashion, I may have very well stayed dead.
— Diane Rinella, Scary Modsters ...and Creepy Freaks
As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success was costly, but clearly the choice of an uncompromising woman determined to achieve greatness on her own. Chanel once said, "I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird." Quote from "A very Good Life.
— Lynn Steward, A Very Good Life
It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.
— Sarah Dessen
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
— Coco Chanel
My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.
— Michael  Jackson, Moonwalk
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself, shine so.
— Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Humility is the best dress you can wear
— Treasure Stitches
Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.
— Matt Dunn, A Day at the Office
A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser.
— David Iserson, Firecracker
Townsfolk have no conception of the peace that mother nature bestows, and as long as that peace is unfound the spirit must seek to quench its thirst with ephemeral novelties. And what is more natural that that of the townsman's feverish search for pleasure should mould people of unstable, hare-brained character, who think only of their personal appearance and their clothes and find momentary comfort in foolish fashions and other such worthless innovations? The countryman, on the other hand walks out into the verdant meadows, into an atmosphere clear and pure, and as he breaths it into his lungs some unknown power streams through his limbs, invigorating body and soul. The peace in nature fills his mind with calm and cheer, the bright green grass under his feet awakens a sense of beauty, almost of reverence. In the fragrance that is borne so sweetly to his nostrils, in the quietude that broods so blissfully around him, there is comfort and rest. The hillsides, the dingles, the waterfalls, and the mountains are all friends of his childhood, and never to be forgotten.
— Halldór Laxness, Independent People
Some clothes provoke more feelings in me than people.
— C.S.  James, Blue Ice
Fashion is merely the lowest form of ideology. To wear or not to wear blue jeans, to holiday or not to holiday in a particular place can contribute to social acceptance or bring upon us the full opprobrium of the group. Then, a few months or years later, we look back and our obsession, our fears of ridicule, seem a bit silly. By then, we are undoubtedly caught up in new fashions.(I - The Great Leap Backwards)
— John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.
— Lauren Conrad, Lauren Conrad Style
As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks of the polite man, when the temperature rises. They affect the style of men who begin their mornings with a splash under a backyard pump, and who stop off at their street-corner bar for a nip of spirits on their way to ten hours’ manual labor. Citizen Robespierre, however, is a breathing rebuketo these men; he retains his buckled shoes, his striped coat of olive green. Can it be the same coat that he wore in the first year of the Revolution? He is not profligate with coats.While Citizen Danton tears off the starched linen that fretted his thick neck, Citizen Saint-Just’s cravat grows ever higher, stiffer, more wonderful to behold. He affects a single earring, but he resembles less a corsair than a slightly deranged merchant banker.
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of ’94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods,She wears what No others dare
— Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013
Money never goes out of fashion.
— Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
Sit there and look pretty.
— Hissa AlBoot AlShehhi
The best creates, the rest follows
— Richard Lee JuiChe
Walk like you have three men walking behind you.
— Oscar de la Renta
I've got plenty.” Isabelle smiled, kicking her feet up so that her anklets jingled like Christmas bells. "These, for instance. The left one is gold, which is poisonous to demons, and the right one is blessed iron, in case I run across any unfriendly vampires or even faeries, faeries hate iron. They both have strength runes carved into them, so I can pack a hell of a kick. ""Demon hunting and fashion," Clary said. "I never would have thought they went together.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.
— Treasure Stitches
On first impressions, John seemed more cynical and brash than the others, Ringo the most endearing, Paul was cute, and George, with velvet brown eyes and dark chestnut hair, was the best-looking man I'd ever seen. At the break for lunch I found myself sitting next to him, whether by accident or design I have never been sure. We were both shy and spoke hardly a word to each other, but being close to him was electrifying.
— Pattie Boyd, Wonderful Tonight
When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style.
— Héctor Abad Faciolince, Tratado de culinaria para mujeres tristes
All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.
— John Jannuzzi
Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
— Justine Picardie, Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's.
— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.
— Abigail Tarttelin, Golden Boy
Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.
— weheartit
Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh.
— Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Eva," she said exasperated. "You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats!"Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in "Reflected in You
— Sylvia Day
Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.
— Maraso
The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.
— John Kendrick Bangs, The Autobiography of Methuselah
Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.
— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.
— Ann Demeulemeester
Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don't be just better...be the BEST.
— Tony Bowls
As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don’t care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so —from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz.
— Ruadhán J. McElroy
Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864
— Cora Pearl
At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Newsflash she already has body image issues. It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates. Her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her bums too flat, her nose is too big and, you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup it just... It, it hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.Used to be all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.And we spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.
— Richard Castle
The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile
— Treasure Stitches
I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.
— Rachel Caine, Bitter Blood
One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful
— Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
— Karl Lagerfeld
My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.
— Stacey Jay, Romeo Redeemed
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
— Lynn Sheene, The Last Time I Saw Paris
I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.
— Britney Spears
you are what you wear
— Treasure Stitches
... look treasured
— Treasure Stitches
Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
— Vivienne Westwood, Fashion Manifesto: The Style-smart Handbook
I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
— Alexander McQueen
The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.
— George MacDonald Fraser, Royal Flash
To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment
— Marcel Schlumberge
Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.
— Umair Naeem, Drowning Shadows
I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.
— Tegan Quin