Sentence examples for observed fashions from inspiring English sources

As the king's canny finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, observed: "Fashions were to France what the mines of Peru were to Spain" – a wildly lucrative domestic and export commodity.

After the show, Ms. Sander said that if her clothes seemed surprisingly different -- younger -- than before, it was because she has had three years to observe fashion from the outside.

As the fashion historian Caroline Rennolds Milbank observed in "New York Fashion: The Evolution of American Style" (Abrams, 1989), the dress "was suitable for working women and college students, for street wear and lunching in a restaurant, and also for golf, tennis, boating and other summer sports".

Ellen Fuchs Dear Diary: As I walk through the streets of Manhattan observing the fashions or, I should write more appropriately, the uniforms of summer, I am reminded of an earlier observation made many years ago by my then-5-year-old niece on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Qualities such as inventiveness, boldness, and imagination (Max-Neef 1985) that are associated with creativity can be observed in the fashion context as the consumer continually updates, revises, and reinvents the self with the use of fashion goods.

"It was Dior," Scherrer observed, "who made fashion into a business by changing the length and shape every season".

And as Scott Schuman, creator of the Sartorialist, the photo blog about street fashion, observed: "It's the models' authenticity that makes them so sexy and appealing.

He called it "the Holy Year of Redemption Nthe one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the death and resurrection of Christ, last observed in similar fashion in 1933, by Pope Pius XI.

"I didn't know so many people were interested in fashion," observed the Vanity Fair writer James Reginato, sitting in his front row perch next to the columnist George Wayne, as the room filled to capacity.

The cells did not crawl along in the laborious, erratic fashion observed in two dimensions, but moved rapidly through the 3-D environment by first extending protrusions fore and aft and anchoring them in the collagen matrix, then contracting like springs and releasing one protrusion to snap the cell in the opposite direction.

Although a few supermassive black holes have also been observed in this fashion, astronomers have only been able to record a few rotational cycles, which decreases the certainty of those black hole's rotational speeds.