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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 is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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.
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.
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.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Squinting upon the lustre
Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;
And, snuffing with a read more
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
