Famous Quotes | ... it is use, and use alone,...

... it is use, and use alone, which leads one of us, tolerably trained to recognize any criterion of grace or any sense of the fitness of things, to tolerate ... the styles of dress to which we are more or less conforming every day of our lives. Fifty years hence they will seem to us as uncultivated as the nose-rings of the Hottentot seem today. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Attribution: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911), U.S. author. What to Wear? Ch. 1 (1873). Referring to the elaborate, expensive, and extremely inhibiting female mode of dress considered fashionable at the time.

Categories: Author, Dress Reform, Fashion

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