All Quotes By Tag: Fashion
“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.”
“You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.”
“An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it’s a comedy.”
“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”
“With right fashion, every female would be a flame.”
“Dresses won’t worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”
“Dresses don’t look beautiful on hangers.”
“Fashion doesn’t make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.”
“It’s time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”
“Beauty is beyond look.”
“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”
“My childhood love affair didn’t die, it just vanished. Women had stopped wearing hats.”
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”
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