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On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword,
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,
The glass read more
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!
Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn read more
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.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away.
