with the attitude we have come to expect from our painters 
and sculptors—the attitude made up of all the senses at once. 
To a person using the whole sensorium, nudity is the richest 
possible expression of structural form. But to the highly visual 
and lopsided sensibility of industrial societies, the sudden 
confrontation with tactile flesh is heady music, indeed.

     There is a movement toward a new equilibrium today, as 
we become aware of the preference for coarse, heavy textures 
and sculptural shapes in dress. There is, also, the ritualistic 
exposure of the body indoors and out-of-doors. Psychologists 
have long taught us that much of our hearing takes place 
through the skin itself. After centuries of being fully clad and of 
being contained in uniform visual space, the electric age ushers 
us into a world in which we live and breathe and listen with the 
entire epidermis. Of course, there is much zest of novelty in this