ABSTRACT
Hierarchy, utility and sex principles in dress: fusion and conflict between them. Some clothes are distinctive of strata rather than of class. Clothes proclaiming the possession of money and leisure. Uniformity of certain fashions a peculiarity of our time. Opposed tendencies; to produce exclusive types and to standardise them. Class symbols in dress. ‘Savile Row.’ The evolution of men’s fashions and women’s influence on them.
