Fashion Quote by Elizabeth Chadwick

“ Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.”

— S.M. Stirling

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“The follower of fashion can be as honest as the leader of the rebellion against it.”

— Vincent Price

“She was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance. “Come,” he…

— Michael Chabon

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.”

— Anonymous

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

— Louisa May Alcott

“She wore her determination like war paint.”

— Sara Donati

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

— Kate Chopin

“Fashion is a cruel mistress.”

— Hester Browne