Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

Civilized and Barbaric Dress

(Australian voice speaks) Observe now the wily frock as it hunts its prey, the perfect pair of shoes.This frock will spend most of the day hunting for the perfect accessories and at night will sort through them rejecting most in a fit of capriciousness. This is in complete contrast to the domesticated frock, the more sedate counterpart of the wild frock. It has no need to hunt for its accessories as they are brought to it by its loving owners.

Civilazation has done little more for human passion of personal adornment than extend, by its progress in the arts, the means of gratifying its barbaric caprices.

(Voice Continues) No civilized person would hunt the wild frock; it is too untamed for their tastes. To wear such a frock could and would lead to the impression that the wearer was a rabble rouser, with no respect for taste and good decorum.

It is a canon of good taste in dress, as well in all other things, to avoid extremes. A person of taste will take care not to be the last to leave an old, or the first to assume a new fashion.

(Voice Continues) The wild frock has some unusual mating habits. There are some that are monogamous, some who have sexual relations with every frock that they can. There are still others who only recieve pleasure from watching other frocks have sexual relations. Again this is in direct contrast to the domesticated frock whose mating habits are controlled and often mirror the mating habits of their owner.

The fact that porn, like weepies, thrillers and low comedy is realized in/through the body has given it low status in our culture.

(Voice Continues) The wild frocks that recieve their sexual gratification from from watching others are shunned by the other frocks.If two or more frocks discover that another frock has been watching them having sexual relations, they will attack it, punishing it for its transgressions, tearing it apart and destroying its plumage. It is not unusual for an attacked frock to end its life after such an attack.

When you are well dressed for the day, think no more of it afterwards, and, without stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural asif you had no clothes on at all.