“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.” PersonsSocialNaturalDifferencesClassAirStreetsStyleDrugEnglandRelationDressesTrainStoresBackgroundsMannersDriversAccentsAssistantsStrollingCabSnobberyDeferenceHostessesSocial RelationsCab DriversBarmenClass Differences Author:Anthony Crosland
“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
“I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.” LooksHas BeensGirlFivePleaseTheaterDressesStoresShoppingThrift Author:Kirsten Vangsness
“If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different” IfsKnowsLittlesDifferentWould BeTodayBeautifulBlackRiskWorstDressesExtremesStoresExpensiveDepartmentWorst ThingsPurpleEccentricBuyersDepartment Stores Author:Alber Elbaz
“Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.” GuySituationNiceStrangeTvsDressesShoesSmellCustomersBreatheStoresLike MeRestaurantsGood TimesOnlineShoppingCommerceHaving A Good TimeE CommerceUghOld Guys Author:Max Azria
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to fly from the body once and for all. Lovers have been known to have heart attacks. Lovers drink too much from nervousness and cannot perform. They eat too little and faint during their fervently wished consummation. They do not stroke the favoured cat and their face-paint comes loose. This is not all. Whatever you have set store by, your dress, your dinner, your poetry, will go wrong.” HeartLittlesHas BeensMatterBodyFacesKnownToo MuchLoversDrinkConversationMouthsCatDressesPaintDinnerStoresDrySweatFlagsStrokesThreateningPalmsHeart AttackNervousnessDry Up Book:The Passion Source: The Passion
“As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” WantLooksRoomsDressesStoresHatsAddressesTonightDreamerDiamondTravelerMagicianWizardsBankersSilkHousewifeMermaidAdventurerClerksTop Hats Book:The Invention of Hugo Cabret Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.” IfsWantMindIdeasCertainMistakeCasesObjectsPleaseRegardDressesStoresFulfillingGreat Mistakes Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.” ArtWarTogetherPassionCommonDressesTablesNotionStoresMessAppetiteLockedFeedingChamberProvisionWardrobe Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Everything I do is unfabulous. Im the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people.” PeoplePersonsDifferentEndsJobsWallWalkingNormalDressesStoresHolesShopsNailsDo The BestVintageBest Job Author:Ashley Benson
“I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.” StoriesTodayRememberPaySawsHusbandRedDressesStoresLikesRemembered Author:Oscar de la Renta