Price and Value

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

~ Oscar Wilde

From the book and play - The Picture of Dorian Gray (July 1890)

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a highly versatile Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. He became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his intelligence, and honesty which he used to expose hypocritical thinking and behaviour in a philosophical, outrageous and humorous manner.

Laver’s Law on Fashion

"Indecent – 10 years before its time

Shameless – 5 years before its time

Daring – 1 year before its time

Smart – ‘Current Fashion’

Dowdy – 1 year after its time

Hideous – 10 years after its time

Ridiculous – 20 years after its time

Amusing – 30 years after its time

Quaint – 50 years after its time

Charming – 70 years after its time

Romantic – 100 years after its time

Beautiful – 150 years after its time"

-James Laver ‘Laver’s Law’, from Taste and Fashion, 1945


"Fashion is a form of ugliness, so unbearable, that we have to alter it every six months"
                                - Oscar Wilde