Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation
without benefit.
— George Santayana
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
— Sir Hardy Amies
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with
full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America
do the same.
— Henry David
The nice thing about money is that it never clashes with anything
that you are wearing.
— Unknown wise person
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean
little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at
work upon the façade of his
appearance.
— Iris Murdoch
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in
for it has not time for anything else.
— Heywood Broun
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
— Coco Chanel
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
— Oscar Wilde
If you are not in fashion, chances are that you are out of debt.
— Unknown wise person
Most women would rather be out of money than out of fashion.
— Unknown wise person
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?
How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
— Linda Ellerbee
Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
— John Malkovich
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by
fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent
He thinks he is a flower to be looked at
And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion.
When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress:
— Raymond Douglas Davies
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's
fashions.
— Lillian
Hellman
Never darken my Dior again!
— Beatrice Lillie
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous
incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
— Edith Sitwell
I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Nights Dream
It's easy for others to tell when yo
u got a bargain on a suit — it doesn't fit!
— Unknown wise person
She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
— Jonathan Swift
Brown shoes don't make it.
— Frank Zappa
I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and
without undue fanfare.
— Fran Lebowitz
Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English
accent.
— Saki
I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the
morning.
— Edward VII 1841-1910, to Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who had proposed accompanying him in a tail-coat
He wears hats, even though he has hair. Very suspicious.
— Dan Theis
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman,
much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man.
— Stendhal
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental
imprisonment.
— Robert J. Ringer
There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
— Sir Ranulph Fiennes
For an idea to ever be fashionable is ominous, since it must
afterwards be always old-fashioned.
— George Santayana
There are easier things in this life than being a drag queen. But, I ain't got no choice. Try as I may,
I just can't walk in flats.
— Harvey Fierstein
The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither
sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I guess I'll have to change my plan
I should have realized there'd be another man
Why did I buy those blue pyjamas
Before the big affair began?
I guess I'll have to change my plan.
— Howard Dietz, I'll Have to Change My Plan
Where's the man could ease a heart,
Like a satin gown?
— Dorothy Parker
No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.
— Winston Churchill, when told that several of his fly-buttons were undone
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I
liked.
— David Bailey (b. 1938), British photographer
Men seldom make passess
At girls who wear glasses.
— Dorothy Parker
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.
— Cole Porter
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
— William Shakespeare
[He] was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to
say "when!"
— P. G. Wodehouse
I had spent the whole of my savings . . . on a suit for the wedding — a remarkable piece of apparel with
lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared
that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.
— Bill Bryson
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in
nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
— Dr. Gregory
An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform
twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial
allusion- macho, sotto voce.
— Phil Patton (b. 1953), U.S. author and journalist. Esquire (New York, Feb. 1990), referring to bolo
ties.
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
— Lord Chesterfield
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John
Calvin.
— Stephen Leacock, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914)
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
— Dorothy Parker
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea
costume.
— Rudyard Kipling, Debits and Credits
His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.
— Saki
The hats were nearly all as though made by somebody who had once heard about flowers but never seen one
huge muffs of horror.
— Nancy Milford, about Princess Alexandra's wedding
Clothes make the poor invisible. . . . America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever
known.
— Michael Harrington
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being
perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey
one.
— Samuel Johnson
When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the
wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: "Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?"
— Katharine Hamnett
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them
take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
— Virginia Woolf
She wore far too much rouge last night, and not quite enough clothes. That
is always a sign of despair in a woman.
— Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral dress. . . . It's people who are moral or immoral.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
— Joseph Addison
Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your
hair is dirty if you are a woman.
— P. J. O'Rourke
They [clothes] look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into
my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one
feels so sorry for them.
— Joyce Grenfell, British actress, writer
I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.
— Debra Winger
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in
the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of
being one!
— Coca Chanel, in Vanity Fair,of Dior's new look, 1994
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less
well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases
the unsatisfied human mind.
— Charles Baudelaire
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and
furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
— Elsa Schiaparelli
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its
slave.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and
provided an easy way- which money could buy . . . to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty,
however temporary that ideal.
— Theodore Zeldin
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing,
speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class
seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
— David Mamet
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other
people wear.
— Oscar Wilde
"Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
— Andrea Dworkin
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the
dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
— Katherine Fullerton Gerould
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
— Colley Cibber
A woman's dress usually stays in fashion until the next time she goes
shopping.
— Unknown wise person
Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in
which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
— Wallace Stevens
Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.
— Kin Hubbard
Nothing can beat a $5 shirt for surprises once you take it out of the packaging.
— Anon
Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
— Unknown Wise Person
Clothes aren't dirty unless someone sees you in them.
— Logica Paini
You can be pretty sure none of the husbands of the ten best-dressed women in America
won't show up on the list of ten best-dressed men in America. One or two of them may show up
on the ten richest men in America, however.
— Anon
A woman who doesn't wear lipstick feels undressed in public. Unlessshe works on a farm.
— Max Factor
Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.
— Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer.
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
— Coco Chanel
Most medical fads are like some women’s fashions — frail, fickle
and costly.
— Noah D. Fabricant
Girls who wear zippers shouldn't live alone.
— John W. Van Druten
Fashion and money — there is a reason
why this topic is included on The Money Cafe along with fools and their money.
— Dave Erhard
To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. Not new fassion worth its
salt is ever wearable.
— Eugenia Sheppard
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence; serving its purpose without obstructing
the view.
— Sophia Loren
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is not a woman, there
is no dress.
— Coco Chanel
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the
birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. . . . If the
purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion.
If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion
flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.
— Stephen Bayley
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
— Jean Cocteau
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between admitted desire to
dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
— Lin Yutang, Chinese writer
Fashion exists for women of no taste, etiquette for people with no
breeding.
— Marie, Queen of Romania
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
— Sir Hardy Amies
If women are so fond of clothes, why don't they wear more of them.
— Anon
I dress for women and undress for men.
— Angie Dickinson
I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out
shopping.
— Julia Roberts
Never speak to a man wearing leather trousers.
— Tommy Nutter
Being named as one of the world's best-dressed men doesn't
necessarily mean that I am a bad person.
— Anthony R. Cucci
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
— Doris Lilly
I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in
America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around,
I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it
is. Think rich. Look poor.
— Andy Warhol
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