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Elizabeth Hawes Quotes: I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.
         

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.


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Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.



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No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

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After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.



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Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.



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If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.





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