How does a holistic image of a dressed body, fashionable and attractive, arise, as the plastic of clothes ceases to be only a sign of social position and enters into a difficult game with body plastic? When does the image of the perfect body become the reason for all new experiments with clothing? Anne Hollander (1930-2014) in her finest research answers questions that puzzled art historians and cultural historians. A real detective investigation into which clothes in the paintings were then fashion, which were a tribute to tradition, which were theatrical drapery, and which were generally artistic conventions that were impossible in the real three-dimensional world. Metaphors, images, symbols in clothes, contradictions of the language of European humanism, the formation of an enlightened view of clothes, new body statuses in the industrial era, tolerance and sports beauty of our days - these are topics considered at the height of academic analysis, putting Hollander's research in a number of the most important scientific works on the history of European culture.