The individualizing influence of the sentiment of shame -- Recent anthropological researches regarding the origin and nature of the erotic sense of shame -- The animal and the social factor of shame -- Shame as a biological sense of warding off -- Coquetry -- The fundamental social element of the sense of shame -- Lombroso’s theory of shame -- The dread of arousing repulsion -- Connexion of the sense of shame with clothing -- Conditions among the indigens of Central Brazil -- Nudity as a natural condition -- The coverings of the genital organs among the primitive races have a protective function, and are not portions of clothing -- Origin of clothing -- The original purpose of decoration and adornment -- Relation of clothing to the feeling of love -- Tattooing a preliminary stage to clothing -- Prehistoric painting of the body -- Tattooing as a sexual lure -- Tattooing of the genital organs -- Sexual effect of colours -- Occurrence of tattooing amongst modern civilized nations -- Recent anthropological researches regarding this subject -- Erotic tattooing -- Tattooing in women of the upper classes -- The colour element in clothing -- Its connexion with sexual charm -- With jealousy -- With sexual allurement -- Sexual influence of concealment -- The stimulus of the unknown -- The two fundamental elements of fashion -- Accentuation and display of portions of the body -- Influence of partial concealment, of _retroussé_ -- The two principal forms of clothing -- Accentuating and enlarging influences of clothing -- H. Lotzes’s theory of the nature of clothing -- Reciprocal influence between clothing and personality -- “Physiognomy” of clothing -- Clothing as an expression of the psyche -- Denuding of portions of the body as a sexual stimulus -- Fashion -- Its absence in antiquity -- Difference between ancient and modern clothing -- Diaphanous raiment of the ancient half-world -- Analysis of clothing -- Upper and under clothing -- The waist -- Further differentiation into clothing proper and more intimate articles of dress -- Dressing and undressing -- Separation of the body-spheres by the waist -- Beginnings of fashion in the middle ages -- The corset as a witness of Christian teaching -- Contest between medieval fashion and asceticism -- Victory of fashion -- Accentuation of the bosom -- _Décolleté_ -- Views of the æsthetics on this subject -- Harmfulness of the corset -- A sin against æsthetics and hygiene -- Its deleterious influence upon the thoracic and abdominal organs -- The corset and anæmia -- Atrophy of the mammary glands -- Other serious consequences -- Its influence on the female reproductive organs -- The corset and “fluor albus” -- The corset and sterility -- Pre-Raphaelite flat-breastedness -- Accentuation of the regions of the hips -- Tournure (_cul de Paris_), the “crinolette” -- Indication of the abdominal region and of