Reverie, by Hubert Denis Etcheverry, c. 1930. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY.

Fashion

Volume VIII, Number 4 | fall 2015

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Preamble

Product Placement

By Lewis H. Lapham

Selling the grasp for what isn’t there.

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Crusader Chic

By Danielle Peterson Searls

Upon returning home, Crusaders brought with them styles that would upset Europe’s fashion hierarchy.

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Map

Local Colors

Shades of history, from black to white.

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Miscellany

The wardrobe that accompanied Tutankhamen to the afterlife included ninety sandals, four socks, 145 loincloths with thread counts of two hundred, and a fake leopard skin made of linen with sewn-on spots.

c. 1870 | Bahr el Ghazal

Ironclad

No one is free from the fetters of fashion. More

1844 | London

Needle Work

Better for the bourgeoisie than for workers. More

1871 | Downe

Stunt Flying

Darwin observes avian ornaments. More

Charts & Graphs

Hair Extensions

Hair Extensions

Historical beards and hairstyles, from down low to up high.

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Japanese author and retired geisha Mineko Iwasaki.

Italian-French author Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

Soldier and writer Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1928

Black and white photograph of American writer and exponent of Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ralph Waldo Emerson & K-HOLE

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