The Thought For the Day
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Linda Grant is having the contest…
Here is what you have to do. You simply need to dream up a Thought for the Day - a sentence or a two, an idea, an aphorism - about fashion, clothes, style. Do not be intimidated by the brainy observations that I have run so far. ‘A good handbag makes the outfit’, a perfect piece of sartorial wisdom, was dreamed up by my mother who left school at 14, and the family motto, ‘There’s only one thing worse than being skint and that’s looking as if you’re skint,’ by my immigrant grandfather who never even learned to speak English.
Go and submit your favorite fashion aphorism.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:54 am
“Just because it comes in your size, doesn’t mean you should wear it.”
January 16th, 2008 at 2:03 am
oscar wilde: “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
another favorite
Stendhal: “Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
January 17th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Be a fashion setter, not a fashion slave.
And from Steel Magnolias: “That’s what raises us above the animals, our ability to accessorize….”