Abstract

This text is an attempt to confront the aesthetics of the decadent with Jerzy Nowosielski’s theological thinking. The dress is becoming a pretext, sacralized according to Baudelaire’s through dandy and having its sacred symbolism in the liturgical vestments. Seemingly peculiar pleonasm of Baudelaire;s thinking with the analysis of the liturgical vestments is not groundless. Theology of garments outlined by Nowosielski allows you to introduce the religious thinking to analysis of decadent aesthetics. Although religiosity in decadence is understood distinctively, this comparison in view of Orthodoxy let us indicate a possible way for its analysis. Decadence reveals a transgressive aspirations towards the profane world and consequently to the religious desire for transcendence. Adopting such a perspective allows for the extraction of many non-obvious issues and finding the sacred in the exterior of clothing.