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Fashion Quotes
"Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity."
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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
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"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."
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"No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires."
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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
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"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."
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"The ultimate accessory is the one that reflects your heart."
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"I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must."
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"I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots."
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"The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering."
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"We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion."
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"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
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"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes."
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"This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view."
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"He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool."
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"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it."
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"Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers."
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"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
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"I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one."
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"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important."
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"I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion."
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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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