William Hazlitt Quotes about Fashion

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt

Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

William Hazlitt

Running, Fashion, Gentility

William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

William Hazlitt

Fashion, Clothes, Trying

William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.244

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

William Hazlitt

Fashion, Two, Ends

1818 'On Fashion', in the Scots Magazine.

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

William Hazlitt

Fashion, Real, Men

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics