Fashion Quote by Paulette Jiles

“Young people of rank ought to wear nice things,”

— Anthony Trollope

“Under the eighteenth century fashion people did not so much all pretend to be young, as all agree to be old.”

— G.K. Chesterton

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

— Joseph Joubert

“It happened to some people, that obsession with throwing their clothes off at an age when it would be best to keep them on.”

— Philip Hensher

“Clothes are a homeless man’s home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Dropping unused clothes in the charity box, I think of the Tibetan children in tattered clothes with clear eyes. Do we need fancy clothes…

— Alexandria Ryu

“There are a great number of what appear to be teenage runaways, but in Portland it seems that even the elderly dress as if…

— Dan Chaon

“Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally…

— Joe Hill

“People's clothes ought to be buried with them...They oughtn't to be left behind to be despised.”

— Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.”

— Aimee Bender

“Everybody ages. Eighty-year-olds don’t look like twenty-year-olds, and they shouldn’t. We live in a throwaway culture that stashes older people away and tries not…

— Vicki Myron