The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up..

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic..

The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in….

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals..

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible..

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds..

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something..

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to differen….

Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting ….

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady i….

If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next tw….

When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same pr….

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies..