Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.
The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.
I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'
We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.
Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.
I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.
It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
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