Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Dressing the Body	5
1	Origins and Motives	15
	Origins and Motives Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes	15
	The Significance of Clothes	18
	Dress	21
	Customs and Beliefs: Ceremonial	27
	Dress	29
	Costumes and Ideologies	34
2	Physical Connections between the Body and Dress	37
	The Psychology of Clothing	37
	Microcosmus: An Easy Concerning Man and His Relation to the World	40
	Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self	43
3	Health Issues and Dress Reform	51
	Fashion in Deformity	51
	The Science of Dress	54
	The Reform Dress	59
	The Development and Function of Clothing	63
Pt. 2	Fashioning Identity	69
4	Establishing Identity	73
	On Fashion	73
	Let Us Have a National Costume	77
	The Psychology of Women's Dress	81
5	Appearance Management	85
	Remarks on the Psychology of Clothes	85
	Psychology of Dress	87
Pt. 3	The "F" Word	91
6	Fashion as Change	97
	Development in Dress	97
	Badges and Costumes	100
	Fashion	104
	Motivation in Fashion	107
	Fashion	112
	Some Conclusions	114
7	Predicting Fashion Change	119
	On the Nature of Fashion	119
8	Fashion as Collective and Consumer Behavior	125
	Fashion Movements	125
	Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon our Notions of Beauty and Deformity	127
	The Economic Theory of Woman's Dress	129
	Dress as an Expression of Pecuniary Culture	132
	A Psychological Analysis of Fashion Motivation	136
	Chronological Annotated Bibliography (1575-1940)	141
	Index	153