Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus

Herbert Spencer's Sartorial Protestantism

Thorstein Veblen's Leisure Class

Georg Simmel: Clothes and Fashion

Alfred Kroeber and the Great Secular Wave

J. C. Flügel and the Nude Future

James Laver, the Reluctant Expert

Roland Barthes and the End of the Nineteenth Century

Appendix: Questionnaire Issued by J. C. Flügel in 1929

Bibliography