„Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.“

„He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.“

—  Rick Riordan, book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

„What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples?"
Helen Plum“

—  Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough

Source: Two for the Dough

„Whether people in Pakistan understand fashion or not, it is a true everyday-living history of our times. People judge you by the clothes and shoes that you wear; they are not bothered whether you live in Clifton, Nazimabad, Gulshan or FATA or anywhere. Everything is perceived by what you are wearing.“

—  Deepak Perwani Pakistani fashion designer 1973

http://www.aajtv.com/exclusive/index.php?id=31, December 25, 2008.

„To me, fashion is like a mirror… It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.“

—  Anna Sui American fashion designer 1964

CBS News Interview (March 8, 2009)

„1536. Fine Cloaths wear soonest out of Fashion.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.“

—  Lady Gaga American singer, songwriter, and actress 1986

Lady Gaga on her Twitter http://twitter.com/ladygaga/status/15736252756

„All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?“

—  W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

The Scholars http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1682/, st. 2
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

„The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hip hop. You show people that you're hip hop by what you wear.“

—  Канье Уэст American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977

2013 Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c

„Some people think I always wear the hat, but that's not true. Sometimes I don't wear the hat. It makes me laugh that some people think I always wear the hat, because obviously I don't wear the hat all the time. What about when I sleep or take a shower? I don't wear the hat then. Also, I don't wear the hat to go to Millets.“

—  Slash (musician) British-American musician and songwriter 1965

Interview with Rock Guitar Player Magazine, 2003.

„I want to live in a world where people are judged by who they are instead of what size they wear.“

—  Jennifer Weiner, book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

„Fashion is made to become unfashionable.“

—  Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 - 1971

As quoted in LIFE magazine (1957)

„Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.“

—  Paulo Coelho, book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

„1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Similarly in French: Les fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.“

—  Heidi Klum German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress 1973

As quoted in "Heidi Klum: No Regrets About Risqué Oprah Interview" by Samantha McIntyre and Oliver Jones in People (27 October 2007) http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20155387,00.html

„Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.“

—  Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay British historian and Whig politician 1800 - 1859

Southey's Colloquies on Society (1830)

„I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India…. People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.“

—  Sania Mirza Indian tennis player 1986

Source: PTI Sania for change of attitude towards women in sports http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tennis/top-stories/Sania-for-change-of-attitude-towards-women-in-sports/articleshow/24779075.cms, The Times of India, 27 October 2013

„The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.“

—  Andrew Biersack American singer-songwriter 1990

„What a strange page in human history is that of social distinction; no people so savage but they have a sort of fashion. Even among the wild people in whose country I am now writing, there are all the small distinctions of small gentility — for example, it is not "comme il faut to wear silk."“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

No.18. The Monastery — MYSIE HAPPER.
Literary Remains

„Remember what I’ve told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Source: Acheron