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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/avisitor-from-mars-contemplating-a-man-in-a-frock-coat-and-top-hat/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

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## More by James Laver

> [The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/the-erogenous-zone-is-always-shifting-and-it-is-the-business-of/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/if-we-could-understand-the-full-significance-of-a-woman-s-hat-we/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/ten-years-before-its-time-a-fashion-is-indecent-ten-years-after-it-is/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/nothing-is-more-revealing-of-an-age-than-its-hypocrisies/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/clothes-are-inevitable-they-are-nothing-less-than-the-furniture-of/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/when-women-take-off-their-corsets-and-heighten-their-skirts-it-always/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/poor-englishwomen-when-it-comes-to-their-clothes-well-the-french/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/the-same-costume-will-be-indecent-ten-years-before-its-time-shameless/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/when-seen-in-retrospect-fashions-seem-to-express-their-era-although/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/every-style-seems-completely-appropriate-to-its-epoch-we-cannot/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/avisitor-from-mars-contemplating-a-man-in-a-frock-coat-and-top-hat/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/clothes-are-never-a-frivolity-they-always-mean-something/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

> [Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-laver/clothes-are-never-a-frivolity-they-always-mean-something-and-that/)

[James Laver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-laver/)

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