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• Women should never be allowed to counsel men about clothes.
George Frazier

• The most challenging part to dressing well is knowing how to be elegant while being casual.
Umberto Angeloni

• Know first who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

• Do you think it means nothing to have the right, as you make your entry into a salon, to look down on everybody from the height of your cravat and be privileged to despise the most important man there if his waistcoat is out of fashion?
Balzac

• Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
Wilkie Collins

• The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde

• Everything a man of fashion puts on his body must be broken in, nothing should appear new.
Kotzebue

• One may become rich, but one is born elegant.
Balzac

• A well-knotted cravat is the first serious step in a man’s life.
Oscar Wilde

• An idea that is confident always looks masculine.
Thom Browne

• A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.
Thomas Carlyle

• To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can’t be separated.
Jean-Luc Godard

• If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
Beau Brummel

• The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield

• There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.
Jim Henson

• Style is when they’re running you out of town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.
William Battie

• One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.
Oscar Wilde

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