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Letter "J" » James Laver Quotes
«The same dress is indecent ten years before its time; daring one year before its time; chic (contemporarily seductive) in its time; dowdy five years after its time; hideous twenty years after its time; amusing thirty years after its time; romantic one hundred years after its time; beautiful one hundred and fifty years after its time.»
Author: James Laver
(Critic, Fashion designer, Writer)
| Keywords:
chic, dowdy, indecent, one hundred, one year, seductive
«Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes-well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.»
Author: James Laver
(Critic, Fashion designer, Writer)
| Keywords:
amused, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, Italian, lifting, reaction, shrug, shrugged, shrugs, spreading, the French, The Italian
«During the summer, nearly every area of the country is normally subject to periods of extreme heat, wetness, or dryness. Summer weather patterns over the continental U.S. are more difficult to forecast than those in the winter season because they are not strongly tied to a climate indicator, such as an El Nino or La Nina.»
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