"The Communion of men upon earth abhors identity more than nature does a vacuum. Nothing so shocks and repels the living soul as a row of exactly similar things, whether it consists of modern houses or of modern people, and nothing so delights and edifies as distinction."
Coventry Patmore.
"Whatever piece of dress conceals a woman's figure, is bound, in justice, to do so in a picturesque way."
From an Early Victorian Fashion Paper.
"When was that 'simple time of our fathers' when people were too sensible to care for fashions? It certainly was before the Pharaohs, and perhaps before the Glacial Epoch."
W. G. Sumner, in Folkways.