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) 时尚是一种让人难以忍受的丑陋，以至于我们不得不每六个月就更改一次。 ——时装丑陋得完全令人无法容忍，以至于我们必须每6个月就改变它的样式。