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Excerpt from The Psychology of Dress Apparently there are two main reasons for writing the preface to a book. The one, that traditional practice may be duly observed, the other, that the writer may make suitable apology for what he has done or perchance fittingly acknowledge the assistance given him by his friends. The second, is the reason for this preface. It would be presumptuous to present this book as a History of Costume. It attempts no such colossal task. It is equally absurd to claim for it a thorough, technical, psychological treatment of any one period or group of periods. It makes no such boast. There has been in the last decade a remarkable awakening to the relations which exist between man and his works, between the mind and its expression in material objects, and also to how absorbing or dominating ideas and interests colour, if not determine, the entire externalized thought of man in religious, political and social life. It is this that makes history live, that makes psychology a vital thing and Art a quality essential to full human expression and inseparable from human life. This is the thought the author has in mind in the selection, analysis, and treatment of such European periods as have most directly influenced our development and that illustrate perhaps, most clearly, the principles which are not only concerned in the development of style in clothes, but in that of the allied arts as well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.