“Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.” — William Hazlitt, “On Fashion,” Sketches and Essays
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“To look like nobody else is a sufficiently mortifying reflection; to be in danger of being mistaken for one of the rabble is worse.” — William Hazlitt, “On Fashion,” Sketches and Essays
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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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“Those who make their dress a principal part of theselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Clerical Character” (January/February 1818)
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“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.” — Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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“Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.” — Steven Brust, Paths of the Dead
“Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.” — Steven Brust, Paths of the Dead
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“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 Wilde, “Literary and Other Notes I,” Woman’s World (November 1887)
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