✳︎Book Title: Kiru (Wearing) - Heibonsha Culture Today ④ Subtitle: Ecology of Dress ✳︎Editor: Michitaro Tada: Chief Editor ✳︎Co-authors: Yotaro Konaka, Minako Terai, Masayuki Nishie, Mitsusada Fukasaku, Kazuko Mizuno ✳︎Publisher: Heibonsha ✳︎Published: September 25, 1980, First Edition 《Contents》 ・Preface: On Wearing (Michitaro Tada) ・Ecology of Dress ・If the Japanese Navy Had Worn Happi Coats... (Michitaro Tada: Japanese Body Sense and Uniforms) ・Since Women Are Not Very Happy, How Wonderful It Would Be If They Did... (Yotaro Konaka: Women's Dress and Passion) ・If You Become Happy by Carrying a Courrèges Handbag, That's Fine (Mitsusada Fukasaku: Brands and the Happiness of the City) ・Women in Miyagawacho, Kyoto, Find It Sexy to Wear Their Collars Long (Kazuko Mizuno: Aesthetics and Allure of Japanese Clothing) ・The Italians Say, "Is That a Handbag Attached to the Young Lady's Back?" (Masayuki Nishie: Japanese Dress Seen from a Different Culture) ・Wearing Jeans and Walking Around with the Front Zipper Open and the Penis Case Showing (Masayuki Nishie: The Origins of Body Decoration) ・From the Need for Women to Protect Themselves from Menstruation, Humans Began to Wear Clothes (Minako Terai: The Origins of Dress and Sex) ・Illustration Composition and Commentary ・Draping: Illustrations of how to wear the Haik of North Africa, the Toga, the Sari and Dhoti of India, etc. ・Transformation of the Body: Punk Fashion, Marcel Duchamp's Hairstyle, Tattoos, Ethnic Body Decoration ・Mimicry and Transformation: Comparison of the Colors and Forms of Animals and Insects with Human Dress ー Michitaro Tada is the chief editor. He is a leading figure in semiotics and comparative cultural studies, and possesses a rare intellect that brings complex theories down to the level of everyday life. In this book, "clothing" is not treated as a matter of fashion or aesthetics. Dress is a phenomenon born between the body and society, and uniforms, brands, Japanese clothing, nudity, sex, shame, and happiness are all discussed as a single ecosystem. With each turn of the page, Michitaro Tada's quiet questions are overlaid with Yotaro Konaka's passion, Minako Terai's perspective unearths the history of women's bodies and menstruation, Masayuki Nishie's fieldwork-based intellect brings in the gaze of different cultures, and Mitsusada Fukasaku lightly deconstructs the happiness of cities and brands. The table of contents and illustrations printed in gold ink on a black background create a visual rhythm, and the line drawings and structural diagrams that abstract the human body eloquently show how the body has been transformed, exaggerated, hidden, and adorned more than words can.