“Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom.”
Edward Sapir (1884–1939) American linguist and anthropologist
Source: Fashion (1931), p. 140
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
Killing For Sport, Preface (1914)
1910s
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