 | 1872 - Страниц: 598
...successful satirist, has left a void that will not easily be filled up. FASHION. BY EXOLA. "/^~\NE may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," is a very \J common saying, and I verily believe there are many persons who would shut themselves in... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1873 - Страниц: 286
...fashionable lady might say, "I cannot give up fashionable amusements; I must enjoy myself as others do ; I might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion." To such an one I reply, " I myself am not a fashionist — it is not in my line ; and as in the following... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1873 - Страниц: 396
...indulged by the humbler of the ornamental sex. It would appear that the pernicious maxim, " One may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," is taken so earnestly to heart by hundreds of maid-servants and workers in factories and City warehouses,... | |
 | Thomas Cheshire (teacher of book-keeping.) - 1873 - Страниц: 220
...attire. Eight hundred of those who, as the paper referred to remarks, made it their creed that " you may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion ; " eight hundred, their numbers replenished by from twelve to twenty per diem ; eight hundred, ages... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1874 - Страниц: 346
...bustled off in twenty yards of stiff, cheap tarlatan, most ladies conform to the mode, on the axiom that they might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. And nothing comes up so ugly and outrageous but there are some who will have it in the very extreme."... | |
 | John Leighton - 1874 - Страниц: 188
...more decisive dictum, often heard in the present day from the lips of our English fair — "You may as well be out of the World as out of the Fashion," — is indicative of the attainment of a more determinate opinion upon the matter ; derived doubtless... | |
 | Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - Страниц: 390
...absolute, and the wisest among us have no alternative but to submit. So true is the old saying that one may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion. It is wonderful to think how rapidly the kaleidoscope of public taste changes. Things come in only... | |
 | Страниц: 692
...all •must follow them, even at the exr pense of personal appearance and comfort ? " Yes, one may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," and summing up the •whole case in this one sentence, — Fashion, like a bell-wether, leads the way,... | |
 | Thomas Cheshire (teacher of book-keeping.) - 1878 - Страниц: 220
...attire. Eight hundred of those who, as the paper referred to remarks, made it their creed that " you may as well be out of the world as out of the fashion;" eight hundred, their numbers replenished by from twelve to twenty per diem ; eight hundred, ages mostly... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 236
...consider their daughters possessors of " Golden lilies " and " Waving bamboos." The old saying, "one might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," prevails to no small extent even in China ; and we need not be surprised to sometimes meet with a make-believe... | |
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that that's the fashion at present among my tribe j sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as 'out of the fashion, you know. 
