Author: HILER, Hilaire.
Title: From Nudity to Raiment. An Introduction to the Study of Costume.
Description: London, Simpkin Marshall [1929?]. Quarto publisher's cloth; [18],303pp, 12 colour, b/w plates, photos, illustrations. ¶ Original edition (produced in France and issued with English and American imprints). An investigation into the origins of adornment, ornament and costume, not a picture book of frocks. Hiler covers the theories of Carlyle, Ellis, Ratzel, Westermarck, Reinarch, Crawley, Elliot Smith and his own aesthetic theory before moving onto body painting and tattoos (with much on colour), coiffure, masks, ornament, fabrics &c. With an introduction by the justly neglected Sisley Huddleston.

Keywords: art applied arts costume anthropology aesthetics ornament body