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Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on ...
Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.
True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life.
We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.
Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
striving for fabulousness.
Fashion, ah yes. A fool's game, if I am not mistaken.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality ... It should be chosen for durability rather than display.
Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
the bed, narrow apple-green draperies at
I like the architecture of lingerie.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult. Today they gave me comfort of a kind. I was wearing the right clothes for a hard day.
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
The soul of this man is his clothes.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.
Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
I thought ... their elegance ... lies not so much in their
clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
The joy of dressing is an art.
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
The clothes have to perform for me.
Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.
... Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother.
Soap shining beauty.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
Fashion is about comfort and feeling good.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.
The secret of great style is to feel good in what you wear
...you must not depreciate the power of well-fitted breeches upon a lady's admiration.
Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
To be well dressed is a little like being in love
Clothing should be quieter than the woman so that her true beauty can shine through.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.
Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.
exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.
Fashion is the armor to survive everyday life.
I like clothes that are elegant and comfortable.
Though there's something more
tender, beneath our vanity,
our will to become objects
of desire: we sweat the mark
of our presence onto the cloth.
honest-to-goodness beauty
It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.
The attire, before and now:
When it fits you, it feels you.
When they see you, you seize them.
But, today,
When it fits you, it freaks you.
When they see you, they cease you.
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners ...
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
I wanted to make at least an effort to impress, so I found my best suit, a Primark special that looked like it had been ironed by a blind man
Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?
I like clean-cut, very proper, very elegant looks.
Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.
Dressed to strip?'
'You know - expensive clothes that feel good in your hands while you take them off him.
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
What a strange power there is in clothing.
Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.
There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling. They seem to push you back into a corner, like a poor intruder at a feast; they are apt to make you envious, or take your breath away with amazement.
Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Once upon a time You dressed so fine
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.
The blushing beauties of a modest maid.
I like feminine suits with unexpected details.
Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.
Fashion is about having a fantasy.
The clothes felt like something more: fine chain-mail armor handmade to fit me, or robes laid out ready for some fiercely secret ceremony. They made my palms tingle when I touched them.
The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity ... What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.
The art of dressing is the art we all practice
Elegance is exquisite polish.
Love Is How You Dress
Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics
As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.