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“It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.”

Knows States United United States Fashion England Drinking Nervous Cups Tea Nothingness Strain Apprehension Warrants

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.”

Littles Fashion Mark Retailers High Fashion

Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private

“If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.”

Ifs Sin Fashion Mines Deserve London Punishment Opera

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.”

Remember Women Fashion Illusion Percent Complexes Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:Elsa Schiaparelli

“Fashions in sin change.”

Book:Six Plays

Source: Six Plays

“There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.”

Men Made Lord Fashion Almighty Tailors

Author:Andrew Jackson

“The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.”

Reason Poor Education Fashion Needed Reason Why

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.”

Way Art Two Real Song Wealth Simple Influence Fashion Poet Drama Thousand Size Stability Ireland Spares Ruined Castles Limerick

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.”

Fashion Mass Hot Speed Heels Avant Garde

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.”

Ifs Firsts Art Language Born Doubt Fashion Strange Concepts Garden Advertising No Doubt Repetition Immoral Eden Advertisements Garden Of Eden Figs Salesmanship Untruthfulness

Author:Freya Stark

“not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.”

Way Mind I Can Hands Remember Form Artist Fashion Determined Mixtures Marble My Future Foresight Sculptors

Author:Freya Stark

“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.”

Body Language Fashion Kissing Elements Clothes Labor Exciting Hug Belts Erotic Jersey Plunge

Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.”

People Wells Ability Cities Fashion Theory Dresses Urges Pace Great Cities

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”

Knows Men World Wells May Reason Religion Belief Fashion Followers Deliberate Find Me Zeus

Book:Childhood’s End

Source: Childhood’s End

“I can honestly say that everything I've ever listened to has influenced me or motivated me in one way, form or fashion.”

Way I Can Form Fashion Honestly One Way Motivated

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.”

World Hard Whole Beautiful Fashion Style Industry Ugly Consumers Something Beautiful

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.”

Firsts Persons Fashion Pages Dressings Bondage First Person Dressing Up

Author:Mary Harron

“If I'm going to an event I make sure I plan ahead so that I don't have a fashion crisis.”

Ifs Plans Fashion Events Crisis

Author:Kate Moss

“I think fashion in motion is going to happen. I think that's the way things are going, but there are people who will still want to see a picture and to be able to hold it.”

People Thinking Way Want Stills Happens Able Fashion

Author:Kate Moss

“People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.”

People Ifs Wells Stills Done Home Dream Asks Ability Fashion Goods Dreams Come True Accessories

Author:Aerin Lauder

“The craziest thing about fashion people in general, not just designers, is that it's always, "Oh my God, you lost weight! I love your hair!" Or "Oh, you're so tan!" Or, "You're so skinny! I love your shoes!" These are fashion icebreakers. Everyone's always looking at each other.”

People Lost Love You Fashion Hair Weight Shoes Designer Skinny Craziest

Author:Michael Kors

“What parents and teachers and caregivers did with me that actually worked and a lot of that was the old fashion 50s upbringing. They just gave the instruction when I did something wrong - life was more structured. So basically it's [my work] based on experiences with me that worked and it was teachers and parents that made me have those experiences.”

Made Parent Teacher Fashion Instruction Upbringing Caregivers Parents And Teachers Old Fashion Wrong Life

Author:Temple Grandin

“Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.”

People Thinking Giving Ideas Might Vision Environment Team Fashion Communicate

Author:Tom Ford

“Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.”

May Wise Fashion Following Foolish Vanity Conform Often Is Singularity Contradicting

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.”

Way Girl Fashion Likes

Author:Ashley Greene

“A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.”

Fashion Fool Foe Tailors

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.”

Long Fashion Extremes

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.”

Fashion Style Pops Classic Accessories

Author:Ashley Greene

“The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.”

Fashion Arms Shoulders Coats Old Fashioned Buffalo

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“Fashion is a capricious deity.”

Fashion Deities Capricious

Book:Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition

Source: Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition

“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

“The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.”

Morning Sun Sky Fashion Shining Rising Makers Resurrection Righteous Altered Countenance

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

Want Real Country Poor Poverty Fashion Weakness Shame Imaginary

Book:Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

Source: Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.

“To derive the fullest comfort and encouragement from Romans 8:28 we must realize that God is at work in a proactive, not reactive, fashion. That is, God does not just respond to an adversity in our lives to make the best of a bad situation. He knows before He initiates or permits the adversity exactly how He will use it for our good.”

Knows Doe Use Realizing Situation Our Lives Fashion Comfort Encouragement Adversity Permit Initiate Proactive Bad Situations Romans 8

Author:Jerry Bridges

“You can't keep an exciting fashion down.”

Fashion Exciting

Author:Carmel Snow

“Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?”

Fashion Style Glamour Lighting Good Lighting

Author:Nigella Lawson

“whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.”

Needs Reason Shows Might Failing Fashion Information Internet Eight Fats Hey Diets Pounds Packs Slides

Author:Merrill Markoe

“It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.”

Wells Form Fashion Expectations Hopeful

Book:My Pillow Book

Source: My Pillow Book

“Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.”

People Should Beautiful Imagination Natural Forget Fashion Ideals Preaching Compatible

Author:August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.”

Long Social Enjoy Fashion Return Capacity Balls Deception Guests Approval Another Time Euphemism Masquerade

Author:Freda Adler

“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”

Feelings Humor Levels Emotion Fashion Bears Birth Opposites Relation Rising Closest Turmoil Wellspring

Author:Constance Rourke

“The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]”

Humans Long Fashion Remains Fortune Affair Vices Fortuna

Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus

“I only put clothes on so that I'm not naked when I go out shopping.”

Fashion Clothes Naked Shopping

Author:Julia Roberts

“Fashion is above all an art of change.”

Author:John Galliano

“Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.”

May Grows Causes Vision Cutting Fashion Clothes Sexuality Lists Primaries Odd Toes Garments Riot Circulation Sideways Translators Psychoanalytic

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.”

Heart Stories Pain Fashion Carrie Rebirth

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.”

Mean Lasts Next Fun Fashion Vanity Folly Seconds Ambitious Disguise Last Words Cunning Gorgeous Innuendo

Author:Barbara Kruger

“The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.”

Men Able Accepting Fashion Style Industry Men And Women Decided Preserves Abandon Introducing Fashion Industry

Author:Alison Lurie

“the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.”

Men Seems Girl Careers Fashion Particular Type Pages Magazines Damage Charm Psychics Editorials Playboy

Author:Alison Lurie

“The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.”

Fashion Industry Built Thrive Collectives Insecurity Fashion Industry

Author:Stacy London