So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.
Abigail TarttelinTags: fashion tattoo terrifying
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: love girls romance windows fashion gatsby summer fitzgerald hot camels zelda fur coats 20s flapper the-camel-s-back
fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.
Ann DemeulemeesterTags: fashion fashion-designer
The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.
John Kendrick BangsEva," she said exasperated. "You should've established a personal style by now-and it shouldn't be sweats!"
Monica, Eva Tramell's mother, in "Reflected in You
Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . . . Jackets were tailored with tails in the back, but were cut away in front so that they perfectly framed the groin. It was the first time in history that men's apparel was consciously designed to be more sexy than women's.
Bill BrysonTags: fashion sex-appeal modesty
Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "linen." Women could refer among themselves to petticoats or, in hushed tones, stockings, but could mention almost nothing else that brushed bare flesh.
Bill BrysonTags: fashion modesty underwear victorian-era
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar WildeSaint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
Justine PicardieTags: fashion chanel coco-chanel
She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
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