Are Clothes Modern? An Essay on Contemporary Apparel.

This fascinating hardcover book, bound in yellow cloth with black titling on front cover and spine, includes heavily-illustrated, unusual and sometimes provocative articles on fashion, body modification and mores, etc. The book is a complete departure from the conventional notion that apparel is but one of the eternally puzzling phenomena of life; that it is created by forces unfathomably obscure and beyond our control. At times the book digresses into historical and psychological matters such as the chapter titled, "The Unfashionable Human Body: which discusses the modification, mutilation and decoration of the human form." Ex-rays and photographs of Chinese "Lily Feet" in the book. 241 pp.