Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
Taste is so much more important than fashion.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.