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Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Prologue to the Noble Gentleman (l. 4)
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And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. VII, v. 31)
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Nineties style isn't.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. VII, v. 31)
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He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
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And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,
The length of breeches and the gathers
Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 923)
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Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Rosciad (l. 455)
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As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: Love's Last Shift (act II)
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Squinting upon the lustre
Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;
And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,
The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes (second week, third day, pt. III)
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Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
Author: Bruce Oldfield
Source: in the London "Independent"
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The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like
the fashion of your garments.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (King Lear at III, vi)
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Death my lord,
Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't
That sure th' have worn out Christendom.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at I, iii)
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All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel
than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion
too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of
the fashion?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Conrade at III, iii)
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I'll be at charges for a looking-glass
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study fashions to adorn my body:
Since I am crept in favor with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will
drive them to acquire any custom.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated
fashions of the generation before last.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Author: Sophia Loren
Source: None
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Author: Yves Saint Laurent
Source: None
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A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.
Author: Monica Baldwin
Source: None
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Author: Manolo Blahnik
Source: None
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A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.
Author: Helena Rubinstein
Source: None
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Author: Edith Head
Source: None
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