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Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

Nineties style isn't.

He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.

And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.

Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.

Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't That sure th' have worn out Christendom.

All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.