Assimilation Quote by Jonathan Raban

“The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways…

— John Kendrick Bangs

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

— Sylvester Stallone

“The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing…

— Mary Doria Russell

“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in…

— Amor Towles

“Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric…

— Geoff Nicholson

“it is precisely in the chaotic and overcrowded metropolis that more and more people need to dress themselves in clothes which signal their identity…

— Roberta Sassatelli

You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own…

— Astrid Kirchherr

“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live…

— Benjamin Hale

“The purpose of clothing, as best he could tell, was to keep one unembarrassed and at the right temperature. If an outfit served that…

— Tom Rachman

“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in a…

— Amor Towles

“It is a traveler’s fallacy that one should shop for clothing while abroad. Those white linen tunics, so elegant in Greece, emerge from the…

— Andrew Sean Greer

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman