| 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. | 1 |
| As good be out of the world as out of the fashion. | 2 |
| Better be dead than out of fashion. | 3 |
Fashion, a word which fools use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse. Churchill. | 4 |
| Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. Latin. | 5 |
| For fashion’s sake as dogs go to church. | 6 |
| Men after the modern fashion and asses after the ancient. Italian. | 7 |
| Nothing is fashionable until it be deformed. Ben Jonson. | 8 |
| Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. | 9 |
| We are led into the most improper things we commit by the force of fashion. Spectator. | 10 |
| When advised to adopt a new fashion remember the fox without a tail. | 11 |
| While the world lasts fashion will lead it by the nose. Cowper. | 12 | | |
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