62 Quotes Tagged: fashion

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

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.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art and music. Instead we have TV, doing just as good a job at dictating fashions, thoughts, attitudes, objectives as did the Church, using many of the same techniques but doing it so palatably that no one notices. Instead of ‘sins’ to keep people in line, we have fears of being judged unacceptable by our peers (by not wearing the right shoes, not drinking the right kind of beer, or wearing the wrong kind of deodorant). Coupled with that fear is imposed insecurity concerning our own identities. All answers and solutions to these fears come through the television, and only through television. Only through exposure to TV can the new sins of alienation and ostracism be absolved.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to run just exactly according to my own notion...

I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.
I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?