Old Fashion Quotes

• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Haute Couture

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

  84 Copy quote

  Show source

• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

  108 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

  50 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fashion, Clothes, Slave

  8 Copy quote

• It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Ideas, Lovely

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Stars, Designer Clothes

  19 Copy quote

• Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Expression, Needs

  6 Copy quote

• Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Epidemics, Clothes

  1906 The Doctor's Dilemma,'Preface on Doctors: Fashions and Epidemics'.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
  To change true rules for odd inventions.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Fashion, Nice

  1593 Bianca to Hortensio.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 3, sc.1, l.78-9.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

  Bob Seger

  Fashion, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old fashion tough guys, run some risk.... This guy is very much an old fashioned masculine, muscular guy, and there are political risks associated with that. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that’s how it is.

  Brit Hume

  Running, Fashion, Guy

  "Brit Hume Thinks Chris Christie’s Too Much Of A Man For Our ‘Feminized’ Culture", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Clothes, Simplicity

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.32, 谷月社

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

  Henry James

  Fashion, Art, Criticism

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.176, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

  Steven Spielberg

  Fashion, Years, Film

  20 Copy quote

• What parents and teachers and caregivers did with me that actually worked and a lot of that was the old fashion 50s upbringing. They just gave the instruction when I did something wrong - life was more structured. So basically it's [my work] based on experiences with me that worked and it was teachers and parents that made me have those experiences.

  Temple Grandin

  Fashion, Teacher, Parent

  "My Interview with Temple Grandin About Autism". Interview with Connie, parentcoachingforautism.com. September 27, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

  Maya Angelou

  Fashion, Attitude, Who I Am

  Source: therumpus.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full of people who have co-owned shares with the managers for many decades, and in many cases they co-invested when everyone was young and obscure. Also when you come back to a place like that you are celebrating old loyalties, and of course the basic idea behind so much of Berkshire is the old fashioned idea that the best way to get loyalty is to deserve loyalty.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Fashion, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• If you want to have sex with strangers, you have to do it the old fashion way and become a prostitute.

  Chelsea Handler

  Fashion, Sex, Want

  4 Copy quote

• Calvin Klein and Donna Karan were the big American names at that point in time, Helmut [Lung] was the cool kid on the block and you had Marc Jacobs and John Galliano who starting the revival of the old fashion houses.

  Roopal Patel

  Fashion, Block, Kids

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source