What is "fashions"

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With friends and family, we discuss the new fashions, the new restaurants, the new cuisine, the new movies.

Despite the fact that there are new fashions every season, the average fashion trend lasts about seven years.

Men have an idea that fashions are haphazard, and are dictated and guided by no fixed principles of action, and represent no great currents in politics or movements of the human mind.

Women exhibit it, and if we should study them more and try to understand them instead of ridiculing their fashions as whims bred of an inconstant mind and mere desire for change, we would have a better apprehension of the great currents of modern political life and society.

If he is faithful to the fashions of the day, he earns the repute of artistic depravity in the eyes of the next generation.

Occidental peoples, but peoples called progressive, are subject to the most frequent and violent changes of fashions, not in generations only, but in decades and years of a generation, as if the mass had no mind or taste of its own, but submitted to the irresponsible ukase of tailors and modistes, who are in alliance with enterprising manufacturers of novelties.

The more important result of the study of past fashions, in engravings and paintings, remains to be spoken of.

We need go back no further than a generation to find abundant examples of eccentricities of style and expression, of crazes over some author or some book, as unaccountable on principles of art as many of the fashions in social life.

The standard of criticism does not lie with the individual in literature any more than it does in different periods as to fashions and manners.

In fine, to return to our knowledge of the short life of fashions that are for the moment striking, why should we waste precious time in chasing meteoric appearances, when we can be warmed and invigorated in the sunshine of the great literatures?

End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Fashions in Literature by Charles Dudley Warner THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER By Charles Dudley Warner Our theme for the hour is the American Newspaper.

For we wear more fantastical fashions than any nation under the sun doth, the French only excepted.

The English, he notes, change their fashions every year, and when they go abroad riding or traveling they don their best clothes, contrary to the practice of other nations.

The plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and of all the dramatists, are a perfect commentary on the fashions of the day, but a knowledge of the fashions is necessary to a perfect enjoyment of the plays.

The tailors went there to get the fashions of dress, as the gallants did to display them, one suit before dinner and another after.