“This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.” PeopleMenDoneYoungOrderFightingHalfRightsHeardFashionYouthHe ManClaimsRidiculousSettingObligationSettingsComicGreekMaturityLatterShyPhenomenonPlatformsFulfilmentDisgraceful Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.” IfsMindFormExistencePrinciplesFashionPositionYouthEatingAffectionRemedyArrested Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.” DoeArtEyeGirlEffectsFashionYouthFlowerBrokenPeriodsPleaseClothesSurpriseAwfulAttributesMeaninglessToesBroadwaySaunteringDazzleKaleidoscopePanorama Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.” HateChoicesFightingFashionYouthWorshipI HateAgingOur SocietyArrogantPlasticSurgeryPlastic Surgery Author:Thomas Haden Church
“The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.” PeopleCultureFashionYouthTerrible80sMillennials Author:Brett Morgen