 And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.  The Woman's World - Side 401888Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Oscar Wilde - 1901 - 196 sider
...daily walk to business and back again in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind ; but most...simple ease and comfort, it is not too much to say that, with the exception of M. Felix's charming tea-gowns, and a few English tailormade costumes, there... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 334 sider
...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of this kind; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....six months. From the point of view of science it not infrequently violates every law of health, every principie of hygiene. While from the point of view... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1908 - 582 sider
...daily walk to business and back again in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind ; but most...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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 482 sider
...daily walk to business and back again in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind ; but most...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... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 334 sider
...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of this kind; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....six months. From the point of view of science it not infrequently violates every law of health, every principie of hygiene. While from the point of view... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 324 sider
...after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness BO intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. From the point of view of science it not infrequently violates every law of health, every principie of hygiene. While from the point of view... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1910 - 322 sider
...in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of this kind; but most women refuse to modify or adapt it....six months. From the point of view of science it not infrequently violates every law of health, every principie of hygiene. While from the point of view... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1916 - 726 sider
...daily walk to business and back again in all kinds of weather. Women's dress can easily be modified and adapted to any exigencies of the kind; but most...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sider
...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... | |
 | Alan Thein Durning - 1992 - 204 sider
...cash register to junk heap, fashion sometimes succeeds. Oscar Wilde once asked, "What is fashion? ... It is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"; fashion has only accelerated since his time. High fashion changed every two-and-a-half months in the... | |
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