_Boston_, 1836, 1837.

SUNT, FUERUNT VEL FUERE.

LONDON, _30th June 1838_.

SUMMARY

BOOK I

CHAP. I. _Preliminary_

No Philosophy of Clothes yet, notwithstanding all our Science.
Strangely forgotten that Man is by nature a _naked_ animal.
The English mind all-too practically absorbed for any such
inquiry. Not so, deep-thinking Germany. Advantage of
Speculation having free course. Editor receives from Professor
Teufelsdroeckh his new Work on Clothes (p. 1).

CHAP. II. _Editorial Difficulties_

How to make known Teufelsdroeckh and his Book to English
readers; especially _such_ a book? Editor receives from the
Hofrath Heuschrecke a letter promising Biographic Documents.
Negotiations with Oliver Yorke. _Sartor Resartus_ conceived.
Editor's assurances and advice to his British reader (p. 5).

CHAP. III. _Reminiscences_

Teufelsdroeckh at Weissnichtwo. Professor of Things in General
at the University there: Outward aspect and character;
memorable coffee-house utterances; domicile and watch-tower:
Sights thence of City-life by day and by night; with
reflections thereon. Old 'Liza and her ways. Character of
Hofrath Heuschrecke, and his relation to Teufelsdroeckh (p. 9).

CHAP. IV. _Characteristics_

Teufelsdroeckh and his Work on Clothes: Strange freedom of
speech: transcendentalism; force of insight and expression;
multifarious learning: Style poetic, uncouth:
Comprehensiveness of his humour and moral feeling. How the
Editor once saw him laugh. Different kinds of Laughter and
their significance (p. 20).

CHAP. V. _The World in Clothes_

Futile cause-and-effect Philosophies. Teufelsdroeckh's Orbis
Vestitus. Clothes first invented for the sake of Ornament.
Picture of our progenitor, the Aboriginal Savage. Wonders of
growth and progress in mankind's history. Man defined as a
Tool-using Animal (p. 25).

CHAP. VI. _Aprons_

Divers Aprons in the world with divers uses. The Military and
Police Establishment Society's working Apron. The Episcopal
Apron with its corner tucked in. The Laystall. Journalists now
our only Kings and Clergy (p. 31).

CHAP. VII. _Miscellaneous-Historical_

How Men and Fashions come and go. German Costume in the
fifteenth century. By what strange chances do we live in
History! The costume of Bolivar's Cavalry (p.