I recently read this great paragraph in a book that perfectly summed up the debate between fashion and style. It was so good, in fact, that I thought it was worth sharing. So I dedicate the following to the one and only, Divine J...the most stylish girl that I know!
Women frequently want to have a mad passionate fling with fashion, but given a choice, most of us would marry style. That's because style, like a good man, doesn't let you down. When fashion seduces you, the affair usually burns itself out before the next season.
Fashion is a show-off, concerned with the cutting edge. Style has seen is all before and knows that the classic tenets of simplicity, beauty, and elegance have staying power. Fashion is a cult; style is a philosophy.
Fashion mocks individuality; style celebrates it. Never forget that fashion, while frequently a charmer, is also a self-centered, frivolous bore. Style is high-spirited and generous, given to touting your best features for all the world to see. Fashion is a provocateur; style prefers to soothe. Fashion is self-congratulatory; style waits for the inevitable compliments. "Fashion can be bought," Edna Woolman Chase observed in 1954. "Style must be possessed."
Fashion guesses, so it can bluff. Style knows. Fashion is impatient and eventually passes away. Style is steadfast and waits for every women's awakening, because authentic style is born of Spirit.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Women frequently want to have a mad passionate fling with fashion, but given a choice, most of us would marry style. That's because style, like a good man, doesn't let you down. When fashion seduces you, the affair usually burns itself out before the next season.
Fashion is a show-off, concerned with the cutting edge. Style has seen is all before and knows that the classic tenets of simplicity, beauty, and elegance have staying power. Fashion is a cult; style is a philosophy.
Fashion mocks individuality; style celebrates it. Never forget that fashion, while frequently a charmer, is also a self-centered, frivolous bore. Style is high-spirited and generous, given to touting your best features for all the world to see. Fashion is a provocateur; style prefers to soothe. Fashion is self-congratulatory; style waits for the inevitable compliments. "Fashion can be bought," Edna Woolman Chase observed in 1954. "Style must be possessed."
Fashion guesses, so it can bluff. Style knows. Fashion is impatient and eventually passes away. Style is steadfast and waits for every women's awakening, because authentic style is born of Spirit.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
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