Everyone laughs at old fashions but religiously follows new ones. ——(American economist) Thoreau

Fashion is a kind of education that strives to get out of the valley and does not want to be caught up. ——(British critic) Hazlitt

Fashion only causes epidemics. ——(Irish writer) Bernard Shaw

The Chinese people’s opposition to fancy dress is not against “fashion”, but against “uniqueness”. ——(Chinese writer) Yi Zhongtian

Fashion is elegance after getting rid of vulgarity. Therefore, it is most replaced by new fashion. ——(British critic) Hazlitt

No matter how fashionable and outstanding a woman is, if she cannot even arrange her home well, she can only be regarded as a very primitive woman. ——(Japanese social activist) Daisaku Ikeda

The wisest life is to despise the habits of an era while not destroying its customary life.

——(Japanese novelist) Ryunosuke Akutagawa