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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.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will
drive them to acquire any custom.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will
drive them to acquire any custom.
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.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass read more
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
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 more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
