Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III.
Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
Beaumont and Fletcher—Honest Man's Fortune. Act V. Sc. 3.
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility—
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
Robert Herrick—Delight in Disorder.
Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Churchill—Rosciad.
As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber—Love's Last Shift.
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.