Fashion Crazy

Why is it that the creation of a genuinely elegant fashion is commonly met with ridicule and resistance, while atrocious fashions are embraced with grave acquiescence and reverent submission?

When a family comes to us, from England or France or any alien land, we acknowledge the hideous brotherhood, and offer our welcoming hands; but Graceful must stay with us a long time to be greeted kindly, and her sisters from foreign parts are coldly looked upon, or dropped at once.

To start at the top, “the very head and front of the offending.”