...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind ; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....months. From the point of view of science, it not unfrequently violates every law of health, every principle of hygiene. While from the point of view...

...suitable it may have been to the Greek cities under Eoman rule. Nothing in the United States struck ine more than the fact that the remarkable intellectual...simple ease and comfort, it is not too much to say that, with the exception of M. Felix's charming teagowns, and a few English tailor-made costumes, there...

...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind ; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....months. From the point of view of science, it not unfrequently violates every law of health, every principle of hygiene. While from the point of view...

...changed before they can compete with men upon their own ground. As to the question of desirability, II. Sarcey refuses to speak. "I shall not see the end...simple ease and comfort, it is not too much to say that, with the exception of M. Felix's charming teagowns, and a few English tailor-made costumes, there...

...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....months. From the point of view of science, it not unfrequently violates every law of health, every principle of hygiene. While from the point of view...

...must follow the fashion, whether it be convenient or the reverse. And, after all, what is a fashion 1 From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form...(infrequently violates every law of health, every principle of hygiene. While from the point of view of simple ease and comfort it is not too much to...

...Fashion is made to become unfashionable. Coco Chanel (1883-1971) French couturière After all, what is fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually...intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author Father As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune...

...they are fashionable or not, if the price is low enough. Oscar Wilde put it succinctly: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Forty-three History In attempts to find a pattern in human history scholars have offered a number of...

...gone, hot on the trail of fresh fashion newly created. "After all, what is fashion?" asked Oscar Wilde. "It is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." Like many an Oscar Wilde witticism, amusing but not quite true. It doesn't take in the odd way that...

...hand and the head * Why some Jews keep their heads covered at all times Fashion, Oscar Wilde said, is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. The good news for Jews is that synagogue fashion hasn't changed in thousands of years. If there were...