So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

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.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.

As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I read more

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.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

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.

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.