Quotes That Describe Fashion in 1900
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- Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928238
"We mean business this calendar week or no washing."
- The primarily African-American members of the Washing Guild of Atlanta, in a alphabetic character to the mayor, during their strike for a fixed rate and better pay, 1881239
"Above all things, avert a dress conform. You lot have no idea of the harm that wearing apparel suits have washed in politics. They are not so fatal to young politicians as civil service reform and beverage, just they accept scores of victims."
- George Washington Plunkitt, ward boss of New York'southward Tammany Hall, 1905240
"Take you lot ever stopped to recollect that the serious subject area of woman's progress and the frivolous bailiwick of woman's clothes are very closely connected?"
- Woman's Domicile Companion, 1914241
"It'south a fad similar hot pants; however, I recollect it crosses the line when a person shows their backside. Y'all tin can't legislate how people dress, simply you can legislate when people begin to become indecent by exposing their body parts."
- Councilwoman Annette Lartigue of Trenton, New Jersey, who drafted an ordinance confronting sagging pants in public, 2007242
"It's up to the person who'south wearing the pants."
- Jamarcus Marshall, a loftier school sophomore in Mansfield, Louisiana, on efforts to ban the "saggin'" style, 2007243
"Expect!... She has blackness bras on the line and black underwear... She didn't buy them for my son—she's fooling around with somebody... that's how you... ever tell."
- A Brooklyn housewife, in Clotheslines, by Roberta Cantwell, 1981244
"Love it or hate it, what nosotros wear is a huge part of how we communicate with the earth. And the letters clothes ship are bigger than just the 'hipness' of the latest style. Garments and accessories have always been a key part of how humans show respect for one another, how sexuality and gender are established, and how values and traditions are honored. Non to the lowest degree of all, clothes are central to personal aesthetics and individuality."
- Laine Bergeson, Utne, 2003245
"Brevity is the Soul of Lingerie."
- Dorothy Parker, 1934246
"Their blue suits mean business equally usual. I say elect this dress."
- Diane Feinstein, running unsuccessfully for Governor of California, 1990247
"Wasn't the controversy a blessing in disguise? You mean, did we sell more jeans? Aye, of form!"
- Calvin Klein, 1984248
"This drift down, this lack of dressing [among American presidents since Kennedy], shows a careless approach to everything. If yous don't care how you lot await, you lot don't care what yous practice. It merely exemplifies what is happening to America."
- Irma Lipton, executive director of the Custom Tailors and Designers Association, 1995249
"Some of the women blame me very much considering I spend so much money on apparel. They say that instead of $ane a calendar week I ought not to spend more than than 25 cents a week on clothes, and that I should save the rest. Only a daughter must have clothes if she is to go into high society at Ulmer Park or Coney Island or the theatre."
- Sadie Frowne, a Manhattan sweatshop worker who made less than $vii a week, 1902250
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