f Coincident origins: Dress and civilization in the Garden of Eden

This study posits that the postmodern practice of uniting dress and mythology has its roots in the Creation Stories of the Judeo/Christian Bible, perhaps the greatest myth ever told. Here the practice of dress finds its genesis in Genesis at the same time as the civilization project. Using the work of Jacques Lacan, Gregory Stone and Georg Simmel, the article questions the significance of this coincidence by tracking the responses that the initial state of nakedness calls forth, and the effect of these responses on the development of self and society in tandem with the development of the practice of dress.