Abstract
beginning of all Wisdom, according to Thomas Carlyle in his justifiably renowned work on the philosophy of clothes, Sartor Resartus, is to look fixedly on Clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent (Carlyle 1987, 52).1 The logic of this modernist view of truth lies in the notion that the world of appearances, and here that of texture, tissue, ornament, and dress, obscures or distracts our perception of essences. In the words of Professor Tuefelsdrockh, the protagonist of Carlyle's fine fiction: Happy he who can look through the Clothes of a man (the woollen, and fleshly, and official Bank-paper and State-paper Clothes), into the man himself; and discern, it may be, in this or the other Dread Potentate, a more or less incompetent digestive apparatus; yet also an inscrutable venerable Mystery, in the meanest Tinker that sees with eyes! (Carlyle 1987, 52).
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