text:  If it be possible that a woman should ever be made frightful by any thing except age then it is surely by dress; if a woman never does a foolish thing in any other way yet at least she errs in her habiliments; if she be fickle at all (and speak to the fact ye disappointed bachelors and ye complaisant husbands!) in what is she more fickle than in dress? We might waste a life in finding a suitable simile for her volatility in this matter: rainbows with changing colours water on a windy day the wind itself in the month of March the much-desiderated perpetual motion; all are feeble similes to describe a woman's fickleness in dress