ABSTRACT
The chapter is about anomalous dressing and deviances from the norm. It discusses extremes of ascetic dressing, from angel-like dressing and prelapsarian nakedness to disguises, cross-dressing, and clothes of heretics. What were the meanings and functions of angel-like clothing on the one hand and ascetic nakedness on the other? It also delves into the tension between orthodoxy and heresy. How important were clothes as markers of heresy? What do clothes tell about faking asceticism, and how do they tell it? When clothes were part of the negotiations between heresy and orthodoxy, how did they make their wearers look suspicious?
