#fashion

Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing." The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum Thomas Hillgrove, 1857 ↗

— Thomas Hillgrove

#dress #fashion #men #women #beauty

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fashionable #imperative #into #join #madmen

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. ↗

— David Duchovny

#articulate #fashion #go #intelligent #life

During the 60's, drug use was in fashion in the U.S. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#fashion #use

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. ↗

— Todd English

#classics #fish #fresh #fresh look #give

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#costume #fashion #beauty

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. ↗

— Tom Ford

#artist #aware #because #creating #designer

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate. ↗

— Estella Warren

#everyone #fashion #fun #go #hard

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. ↗

— John Webster

#blows #devil #fashions #heard #him