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James Laver Quotes: Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
         

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.


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Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.



Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

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 inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.



When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

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.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.



Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.



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.

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.





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