Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feelings, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
The city missionaries also used to find their worst cases here too, and now, what cleanliness of collar, what modishness of coat!
"From the Easy Chair, series 3"
George William Curtis
But originality and modishness are different things.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray