rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

If you feel like getting a divorce, you are no exception to the general rule.

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.