Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Fashion

A fop of fashion is the mercer’s friend, the tailor’s fool and his own foe.

As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.

Better be dead than out of fashion.

Fashion, a word which fools use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.Churchill.

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.Latin.

For fashion’s sake as dogs go to church.

Men after the modern fashion and asses after the ancient.Italian.

Nothing is fashionable until it be deformed.Ben Jonson.

Tailors and writers must mind the fashion.

We are led into the most improper things we commit by the force of fashion.Spectator.

When advised to adopt a new fashion remember the fox without a tail.

While the world lasts fashion will lead it by the nose.Cowper.