Fashion Phrases

Phrases

• A la mode
• After a fashion
• All manner of
• As cool as a cucumber
• Bart the Cool (Nickname of American football player Bart Starr)
• Be there or be square
• Because I'm worth it (L'Oreal advertising slogan)
• Boob tube
• Brand slut
• Break the mould
• By no manner of means
• Cafe society
• Clothes maketh the man
• Cool Britannia
• Cool Hand Luke (Paul Newman movie)
• Cool Joe (Nickname of baseball player Joe Montana)
• Cool Papa (Nickname of baseball player James Bell)
• Cool as a mountain stream (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cool beans
• Cool cat
• Cool down
• Cool million
• Cool off
• Cool out
• Cool your heels
• Cool, calm and collected
• Cool, fresh, consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Cramp your style
• Create a storm (Monsoon advertising slogan)
• Culture vulture
• Doctor Fad (Nickname of entrepreneur Ken Okuda)
• Doggy style
• Dress for success
• Dress up
• Dressed to kill
• Dressed up to the nines
• En vogue
• Fashion victim
• Fashionably late
• Fine feathered
• For successful living (Diesel advertising slogan)
• For the overwhelming minority (Vogue Magazine advertising slogan)
• Frock horror
• Frock up
• Gangnam Style (Psy song)
• Geek chic
• Grey is new black
• Haute couture
• Heroin chic
• Hip and happening
• House style
• If it wasn't in VOGUE It wasn't in vogue (Vogue Magazine advertising slogan)
• Image is everything
• In a manner of speaking

• In vogue
• It takes 40 dumb animals to make a fur coat, but only one to wear it
• Item du jour
• Joe Cool (Nickname of Joe Johnson)
• Keep a cool head
• Keep up with the Joneses
• Keep your cool
• Kitten heels
• Label queen
• Le Freak (Chic song)
• Leading fashion hub
• Librarian chic
• Lose your cool
• Make-up to make love in (Mary Quant advertising slogan)
• Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline (Maybelline Cosmetics advertising slogan)
• Menthol-Fresh, cool, clean, Consulate (Consulate Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Must have
• Must have accessory
• No wonder the English have kept cool for 192 years (Gordon's Gin advertising slogan)
• Old fashioned look
• Only 1 out of 25 men is color blind. The other 24 just dress that way (Mohara Suits advertising slogan)
• Only the brave deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER (Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan)
• Out of favour
• Parrot fashion
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play it cool
• Potatoes in the mould (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Putting on the Ritz
• Putting on the style
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Radical chic
• Rag trade
• Red and green should never be seen
• Save your breath to cool your porridge
• Shabby chic
• Ship shape and Bristol fashion
• Sophisticated living
• Style over substance (an emphasis on image rather than issues)
• Sunday best
• The Spirit of American Style (Buick advertising slogan)
• The United Colors of Benetton (Benetton advertising slogan)
• The height of fashion
• The mod squad
• The new black
• The next small thing
• The old-fashioned way
• To the manner born
• Togged out
• Training shoes
• Up to date
• Way cool
• We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it (Smith Barney advertising slogan)
• What the well-dressed man is wearing this year (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• What we have here is a failure to communicate (line from Cool Hand Luke)
• Where it's at