Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Abbreviations vii
5. Acknowledgements viii
6. Preface ix
7. Chapter 1 Modern Clothes-consciousness 1
8. Chapter 2 From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne 37
9. Chapter 3 Fashion and Literary Modernity 66
10. Chapter 4 Modernism against Fashion 92
11. Chapter 5 Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies and the Nude Future 115
12. Chapter 6 Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture 140
13. Bibliography 161
14. Index 171