We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
— Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
— Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
— Henry David Thoreau
And if you're intersted in "eco-fashion," here is an article you might weant to read!
Is Fashion a Dressed Up Dinosaur?
According to Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren we have enough clothing produced for the coming 20 years, so we don’t need to waste our resources or time any more on clothing production, and can just let fashion die out like a lipsticked dinosaur. In a Treehugger Interview he criticizes the development of greening up fashion, saying: “nowadays there is much focus on how we can make clothing manufacture more ecologically friendly, but we have enough clothes in the world for the next 20 years, we don’t need more clothes manufacture.”
