Although men have otherwise no right to talk about fashion in
clothes, the sort of materials, trimmings, cut, and all the other
details, nevertheless research has provided a more respectable
reason for treating these trivialities as important, and discussing
them at length, than what women are allowed to have in this
field.
G. W. F. hEGEL
Clothes only relate to their opposites.
KarL marX
[U]topia occupies, as it should, an intermediary position
between the praxis of the poor and that of the rich.
roLanD BarThES
Afterword
Clothes, Fashion and
System in the Writings
of Roland Barthes:
‘Something Out of Nothing’
by Andy Stafford