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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to read more
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,
The length of breeches read more
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.
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study read more
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favor with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated
fashions of the generation before last.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated
fashions of the generation before last.
