This Text Reprints Classic Fashion Writings Of Which Have Had A Profound If Perhaps Untrumpted Impact On Our Understanding And Approach To Modern Day Dress - From The Psychology Of Clothes Through To Collective Fashion Trends.--jacket. Pt. 1. Dressing The Body -- 1. Origins And Motives -- Origins And Motives Of The Custom Of Wearing Clothes / Michel De Montaigne -- Significance Of Clothes / Sylvia H. Bliss -- Dress / Alfred E. Crawley -- Customs And Beliefs: Ceremonial / Alfred R. Radcliffe-brown -- Dress / Ruth Bendict -- Costumes And Ideologies / Hilaire Hiler And Meyer Hiler -- 2. Physical Connections Between The Body And Dress -- Psychology Of Clothing / George Van Ness Dearborn -- Microcosmus: An Essay Concerning Man And His Relation To The World / Hermann Lotze -- Some Aspects Of The Early Sense Of Self / G. Stanley Hall -- 3. Health Issues And Dress Reform -- Fashion In Deformity / William Henry Flower -- Science Of Dress / Ada S. Ballin -- Reform Dress / Amelia Bloomer -- Development And Function Of Clothing / Knight Dunlap -- Pt. 2. Fashioning Identity -- 4. Establishing Identity -- On Fashion / William Hazlitt -- Let Us Have A National Costume / Mary E. Fry -- Psychology Of Women's Dress / William I. Thomas -- 5. Appearance Management -- Remarks On The Psychology Of Clothes / Louis W. Flaccus -- Psychology Of Dress / Grace Margaret Morton -- Pt. 3. F Word -- 6. Fashion As Change -- Development In Dress / George H. Darwin -- Badges And Costumes / Herbert Spencer -- Fashion / Georg Simmel -- Motivation In Fashion / Elizabeth Hurlock -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Some Conclusions / James Laver -- 7. Predicting Fashion Change -- On The Nature Of Fashion / Agnes Brooks Young -- 8. Fashion As Collective And Consumer Behavior -- Fashion Movements / Herbert Blumer -- Of The Influence Of Custom And Fashion Upon Our Notions Of Beauty And Deformity / Adam Smith -- Economic Theory Of Woman's Dress / Thorstein B. Veblen -- Dress As An Expression Of Pecuniary Culture / T