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1914 September 11, Giacomo Balla
Mankind has always dressed up in quietness, fear, caution or uncertainty, always clad in black mourning apparel, with the pluvial or the cape.
The human body has always been debased by undertones or neutral shades, humiliated by black, suffocated by belts, imprisoned in drapes. 
Up till today people have been wearing outfits that were static in colour and shape, draped, solemn, grave, uncomfortable and priestly.
They conveyed shyness, melancholy and slavery, denial of the muscular life that was covered up in an anti-hygienic die-hardism made up of thick and heavy fabric with boring tinges, effeminate or decadent.
Gradations and rhythms of dreary peacefulness, funereal and gaunt.
TODAY we want to abolish:
1. – All those so –called “pretty”, faded, patterned, dim and humiliating neutral shades.
2. – All those pedant, donnish and Teutonic tones and styles. All those striped, checked patterns, with diplomatic dots.
3. – Mourning dresses, not even fit for gravediggers. Heroic deaths that should not be mourned over, but rather, reminded by wearing red.
4. – The mediocre and undistinguished balance, the so-called tastefulness and the so-called harmony of shades and styles, that hinders enthusiasm to express itself freely and slows down the pace.
5. – Symmetric cuts, boring and depressing static design that brings you down, that hem in the muscles; the uniformity of shapeless turn-downs and all that jabber. Those useless buttons. Those starched and stiff collars and cuffs.
