There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.
Alison LurieThe fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
Alison LurieWe can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison LurieFashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Alison LurieMost of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.
Alison Lurie