Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe,'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?'And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent,'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'

-Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn ne¤  e Stevenson
^3  Of the Cranford ladies. Cranford, ch.1.

And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.263^4.

When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The House of the Seven Gables, preface.

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

-Hazlitt,William
  'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^9  The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.6.

: He hath been beyond-sea, once, or twice. : As far as Paris, to fetch over a fashion, and come back again.

-Jonson, Ben
     GENTCARL1600  Every Man out of His Humour, act 2, sc.2.

Fashion is the image of an age and can tells its story better than a speech.

-Lagerfeld, Karl
  In the Daily  Telegraph, 20 Oct.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.

-Lurie, Alison
The Language of Clothes.

   Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in the world reappear in one fashion or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, section1.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

-Merton, Paul
  In the Daily Telegraph, 21  Apr.

I was here convinced of the truth of a reflection I had often made, that if it was the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

-Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint
c.1716  In a Turkish bath in Sofia. Collected in Lord Wharncliffe (ed)  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary  Wortley Montagu (1837).

Wemust not seek tofashion events, but let them happen of their own accord.

-LouisNapoleon Bonaparte
  In conversation with Bismarck, Biarritz, 4 Oct.

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionöthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry, 3 Sep.

Fashion should be a game.

-Quant, Mary
  Quant by Quant.

You hear of me, among others, as a respectable architectural man-milliner; and you send for me, that I 704 may tell you the leading fashion.

-Ruskin,John
  The Crown ofWild Olive,'Traffic', lecture 2.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

-Sandys, George
^6  The Life of Reason,'Reason in Religion'.

So fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

-Schmitt,Wolfgang Rudolph
  A Shocking Life, ch.9.

   I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoiled in the making. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork; and, for the fashion, I believe they were made in the days of Queen Bess.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

No woman can look as well out of the fashion as in it.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Letter,16 Apr, quoted in FranklinWalker and G Ezra Dane (eds) MarkTwain'sTravels with Mr. Brown (1940), letter14.

Fashion iswhatonewears oneself.What isunfashionable is what other people wear.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Lord Goring. An Ideal Husband, act 3.