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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have
to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde
Tell me the story of that frock. It's obviously an old favorite. You were wise
to remove the curtain rings.
- Edna Everage
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
- James Matthew Barrie
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
- Jonathan Swift
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry -
for the clothes.
- Josh Billings
Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
- Don Rickles to David Letterman
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
- Irvin S. Cobb
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly
with time.
-Jean Cocteau
She looked as if she'd been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say
when.
- PG Wodehouse
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of
your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to
feed their pride.
- Charles Caleb Colton
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and
cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and
all the monkeys in America do the same.
- Henry David Thoreau
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to
affect ignorance.
- Baltasar Gracian
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is
haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and
fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every
whim of the minute.
- William Hazlitt
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the
designers... and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
- Nina Totenberg
A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
- Earl Long
Narcissistic, neurotic behavior deserves another mention, as it is the prime
mover behind the highly lucrative self-help, New Age, fitness, psychoanalytic
and hair care industries.
- Janeane Garofalo
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style. It will look ridiculous
year after year.
- Fred Allen
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
- Hedy Lamarr |
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