And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Literary and Other Notes I, Woman's World (November 1887)
時尚是一種讓人難以忍受的丑陋,以至于我們不得不每六個月就更改一次。
——時裝丑陋得完全令人無法容忍,以至于我們必須每6個月就改變它的樣式。