Fifty Years of Fashion Quotes

“It is clear, for example, that many Americans did not like the idea of avant-garde art, especially in relation to women's fashion. Many people were particularly indignant about what seemed to them the deliberate obliteration of sexual attractiveness, which they identified with the tightwaisted dress and the hourglass figure.”
― Valerie Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

“Fashions no longer "trickle down", they usually "bubble up" from various subcultures, but contrary to what Polhemus believed, the creators of street style do not "naturally" evolve a pure and unchanging style, in contrast to fashion's artificial promotion of new, "trendy fashions.”
― Valerie Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

“Certainly, the sexual revolution influenced the course of fashion history. As we move into the twenty-first century and fashion becomes ever more erotic and taboo-breaking, we can clearly see how important a role the mini-skirt played in the development of women's fashion.”
― Valerie Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

“In recent years scholars and costume curators have increasingly realized that fashion must be placed firmly within its cultural and historical context;the study of dress cannot be separated from women's history, for example.”
― Valerie Steele, Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now