James Laver Quotes
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.
The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.