Introduction; 1. Production Into Consumption: Materialism in Fashion; 2. Historical Materialism and Historicism: The Tiger’s Leap; 3. Sartorial Semantics: Le Mot dans la mode; 4. Markets for Modernity: Salons, Galleries and Fashion; 5. Structuralism and Materialism: The Language of a Pur(e)Suit; 6. Dialectics in C.C.P.; 7. Primary Material; Concluding Remark; Select bibliography; Index.