v. 1. Costume and fashion / Fernand Braudel -- Fashion in French crusade literature : desiring infidel textiles / Sarah-Grace Heller -- Art and life / Johan Huizinga -- Medieval aesthetic sensibility / Umberto Eco -- Society and festivals / Jacob Burckhardt -- Order and fashion in clothes : the king, his household, and the city of London at the end of the fifteenth century / Anne F. Sutton -- Summer : the last century / Timothy Brook -- Between clothing and nudity / Mario Perniola -- Women and sumptuary law / Catherine Kovesi -- Upward training of the body from the age of chivalry to courtly civility / Georges Vigarello -- Renaissance beard : masculinity in Early Modern England / Will FIsher -- Appearances / Georges Vigarello -- Devil and his striped clothes : 13th-16th centuries / Michel Pastoureau -- Venice and the dress of foreigners / Stella Mary Newton -- Costume and the boundaries of bodies / Bronwen WIlson -- Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye -- Feathers and flies : Aphra Behn and the seventeenth-century trade in exotica / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Clothing provision and the great wardrobe in the mid-thirteenth century /Kay Staniland -- Currency of clothing / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- Gendered space in Renaissance Florence : theorizing public and private in the "rag trade" / Carole Collier Frick -- Economics of clothing in the late seventeenth century / N.B> Harte -- Cost of apparel in seventeenth-century England, and the accuracy of Gregory King / Margaret Spufford -- Looks and appearance / Baldesar Castyiglione -- Gesture, ritual and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka -- Prescribing fashion : dress, politics and geneder in sixteenth-century Italian conduct literature / Elizabeth Currie -- Masculine apparel / Stephen Orgel -- To fashion a self : dressing in seventeenth-century England / Sue Vincet -- "twisted" poses : the Kabuku aesthetic in early Edo genre painting / John T. Carpenter, v. 2 Cavaliers and the parvenus as imitators of the court / Werner Sombart -- Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son / Earl of Chesterfield -- Regrets on parting with my old dressing gown, or, a warning to those who have more taste than money / Denis Diderot -- Eros and liberty at the English masquerade, 1710-90 / Terry Castle -- Freedom of dress in revolutionary France / Lynn Hunt -- Purged century / Piero Camporesi -- Popular dress / Daniel Roche -- Image-object-space / Katie Scott -- Artistic expression of Iki / Kuki Shūzō -- Street style : dress in John Gay's Trivia / Aileen Ribeiro -- Nature and artifice / Georges Vigarello -- Fleshing out the revolution / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Consumer behaviour, textiles and dress in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Lorna Weatherill -- European consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John E. WIlls, Jr. -- Taxes upon consumable commodities / Adam Smith -- Queen and her "minister of fashion" : gender, credit and politics in pre-revolutionary France / Clare Haru Crowston -- Production and marketing of populuxe goods in eighteenth-century Paris / Cissie Fairchilds -- Developing consumerism and the ready-made clothing trade in Britain, 1750-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Involuntary consumers? Servants and their clothes in eighteenth-century England / John Styles, v. 3 Adolf Loos and the English dandy / Jules Lubbock -- Treatises of dandyism / Rhonda K. Garelick -- Invisible Flaneur / Elizabeth WIlson -- Actress : Covent Garden and the Strand 1880-1914 / Christopher Breward -- Suffrage response / Joel H. Kaplan and Sheila Stowell -- Tigersprung : fashioning history / Ulrich Lehmann -- Love of finery : fashion and the fallen woman in nineteenth-century social discourse / Mariana Valverde -- Exquisite slave : the role of clothes in the making of the Victorian woman / Helene E. Roberts -- Dress reform as antifeminism : a response to Helene E. Roberts' "The exquisite slave : the role of clothes in the making of the Victorian woman" / David Kunzle -- Reply to David Kunzle's "Dress reform as antifeminism : a response to Helene E. Roberts' 'The exquisite slave'" / Helene E. Roberts -- Fashion jewellery / Marguerite de Ponty (Stéphane Mallarmé) -- Fashion / Marguerite de Ponty (Stéphane Mallarmé) -- Consuming Kashmir : shawls and empires, 1500-2000 / Michelle Maskiell -- Management of colour : the Kashmir shawl in a nineteenth-century debate / David Brett -- Sartorial ideologies : from homespun to ready-made / Michael Zakim -- Cheap mass-produced men's clothing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Sarah Levitt -- Invisible clothing / Philippe Perrot -- Wool cloth and gender ; the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 / Lou Taylor -- Materializing mourning : hair, jewellery and the body / Marcia Pointon -- Femininity and consumption : the problem of the late nineteenth-century fashion journal / Christopher Breward -- 'A dream of fair women' : revival dress and the formation of late VIctorian images of femininity / Margaret Maynard -- Femme fatale : fashion and visual culture in fin-de-siècle Paris / Valerie Steele -- Sex and the city : metropolitan modernities in English history / Margot Finn, and v. 4 Dress as an expression of the pecuniary culture / Thorstein Veblen -- Philosophy of fashion / Georg Simmel -- Economic and social role of fashion / Pierre Clerget -- Cerementing of the gentleman / Gerald Heard -- Predominance of male homosociality / J.C. Flügel -- Epilogue on trousers / Eric Gill -- Functions of folk costume in Moravian Slovakia : introduction / Petr Bogatyrev -- Economic interpretation of women's fashions / Paul M. Gregory -- Themes in cosmetics and grooming / Murray Wax -- Economics of fashion demand / Dwight E. Robinson -- From gemstones to jewellery / Roland Barthes -- Fashion : from class differentiation to collective selection / Herbert Blumer -- Why the midi failed / Fred D. Reynolds and William R. Darden -- Production of belief : contribution to an economy of symbolic goods / Pierre Bourdieu -- Fashion shapes : film, the fashion industry, and the image of women / Maureen Turim -- Other people's clothes? The international second-hand clothing trade and dress practices in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- To cut is to think / Germano Celant -- Illuminations : Warhol in the 1950s / Richard Martin -- Golden dustman : a critical evaluation of the work of Martin Margiela and a review of Martin Margiela exhibition (9/4/1615) / Caroline Evans -- Art, fashion and music in the culture society / Angela McRobbie -- Vionnet & classicism / Rebecca Arnold -- Paul Poiret's minaret style : originality, reproduction, and art in fashion / Nancy J. Troy -- Hollywood glamour and mass consumption in postwar Italy / Stephen Gundle -- Magic fashion / Elizabeth WIlson