“Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies.” WayMadeImportantBodyCareQualityClothesAppreciateDressesImportant ThingsDon't CareStoresDesignerTrendsClothingsCostumesMantrasTailorsTrendyAnomaliesInexpensive Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.” MenNeedsEasyQualityBirthAdvantageDressesTitlesSuperiorityAssistanceAmiable Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.” HomeQualitySubjectsHigherConversationEatingDressesOccasionsRestaurantsWorthwhileMundaneEating Out Book:Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life Source: Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
“Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.” YearsHas BeensArtTwoBeautifulFormLawQualityPrinciplesClearFashionMonthsSixEternalArt IsHundredDressesRationalFollySix MonthsUglinessUnbearableIn-lawsEphemeral Author:Oscar Wilde
“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.” PeopleIfsWorldWayWantHumansPastHuman BeingsQualityThis WorldDressesDressings Author:Joyce Meyer