Dress, drinks, and drums : further studies of savages and sex / by Ernest Crawley ; edited by Theodore Besterman.

  • Crawley, A. E. (Alfred Ernest), 1869-1924.
Date:
1931
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    I. DRESS ITS ORIGINS, FORMS, AND PYSCHOLOGY, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE SEXUAL PSYCHOLOGY An analysis of the relations of man's clothing with his development in social evolution will naturally be chiefly concerned with psychological categories. When once instituted, for whatever reasons or by whatever process, dress became a source of psychical reactions, often complex, to a greater extent (owing to its more intimate connexion with personality) than any other material product of intelligence. Some outline of the historical development of dress will be suggested, rather than drawn, as a guide to the main inquiry. For formal, chronological, or regional histories of dress, the reader must look elsewhere.^ The practical, or, if one may use the term, the biological uses and meaning of dress, are simple enough and agreed upon. These form the first state of the material to be employed by the social con- sciousness. Its secondary states are a subject in themselves. ^ Among such works most warmly to be recommended are Max von Boehn, Die Mode : Menschcn und Moden vom Untergang der alten Welt bis zum Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhurderts (Munich 1907-1925, 8 vols.), and the splendid series of illustrations in Paul Louis de Giafferi, The History of the Feminine Costume of the World from the year ^2''^ Century (New York, Paris [1927]). Among lesser works of a general kind in English may be mentioned Mary Evans, Costume Throughout the Ages (Philadelphia 1930), and Kohler^ von Sichart, A History of Costume (London 1928). Curiously enough, the bibliography of dress and costume has not yet been attempted.