Fashion

Fashion refers to styles of dress (but can also include cuisine, literature, art, architecture, and general comportment) that are popular in a culture at any given time. Such styles may change quickly, and "fashion" in the more colloquial sense refers to the latest version of these styles. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.

Quotes

• Innovators are the cool ones who "pump" new fashions into our world … Most are ignored, but some get copied.
  • Dr. Alex Bentley, as quoted in "Fashions change, but change is always the fashion" at AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity (30 March 2007).

• Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom.
  • Edward Sapir, Fashion (1931), p. 140.

• The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.
  • Jerome K. Jerome, English author. Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 7.

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
  • Oscar Wilde, as quoted in The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949) by Evan Esar.

• Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
  • Maria Callas, as quoted in Women's Wear Daily (20 December 1958), Marie-Jacques Perrier, 'Grande nuit de l’Opéra', New York.

• Fashions change, but change is always the fashion.
  • Anonymous saying.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261.

• Squinting upon the lustre
  Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;
  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,
  The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
  • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week (1584), Third Day, Part III.

• Nothing is thought rare
  Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
  That what was worn some twenty years ago
  Comes into grace again.
  • Beaumont and Fletcher, prologue to the Noble Gentleman, line 4.

• He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.
  • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III, Section II. Memb. 2. Subsect. 3.

• And as the French we conquer'd once,
  Now give us laws for pantaloons,
  The length of breeches and the gathers,
  Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 923.

• Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use,
  Their knavery and folly to excuse.
  • Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 455.

• As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
  • Colley Cibber, Love's Last Shift, Act II.

• The fashion of this world passeth away.
  • I Corinthians, VII. 31.

• The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
  The observ'd of all observers.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 1, line 161.

• Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,
  That, sure, they've worn out Christendom.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act I, scene 3, line 14.

• You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.
  • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act III, scene 6, line 83.

• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
  • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act III, scene 3, line 148.

• I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,
  And entertain some score or two of tailors,
  To study fashions to adorn my body:
  Since I am crept in favour with myself,
  I will maintain it with some little cost.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 2, line 256.

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