Costume & Fashion. Gender - Public Space

Ralph Barton. Sketch for a catalogue cover, c. 1918.

Caricature of Flappers Wearing Furs. The work of American designers 1918.

Spring Garden Estate, St George, Jamaica.

James Hakewill’s Picturesque tour of the island of Jamaica (1825).

Well at Bolonchen, Mexico.

Bolonchen derives its name from two Maya words, Bolon, which signifies “nine,” and Chen, “wells” and it means “the nine wells.”

Lady Maria Theresa Lewis, 1834.

British writer and biographer.

Manteaux. Les modes sous Louis XV. La mode du rococo.

Les modes sous Louis XV 1715-1774. La Mode du Rococo. Manteaux.

Rococo hunting party by Charles André van Loo 1737.

This painting dates from the most characteristic period of Louis XV’s reign and shows an extremely accurate representation of the society of that time.

Swiss bourgeois men on the way to church 1680.

Bourgeois allant à l’Eglise.

Habillement des marchands ambulants à l’époque d’Henri IV de France.

Clothing of travelling merchants at the time of Henry IV of France. Marchand of the Brushes. Tinker.