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Cartoons on fashion and appearance

No matter the century, what we are wearing is often a subject of commentary, critique and plenty of foolery. Fashion may have changed since these cartoons were created, but the classics endure! The cartoonists of yesteryear where just as sharp as their present day counterparts, sometimes even sharper.  Have a look and see how the humor in these old cartoons on fashion still applies today. No detail went unnoticed, no item of clothing or appearance were spared: dresses, hats, shoes, accessories, make-up and all the trials and tribulations of looking good and being fashionable all were subjects for the caricaturist’s pen. From prim and proper to shabby and slovenly, it’s all here…

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Following the fashion
The new machine for winding up the ladies
A cartoon on the 18th century Duke and Duchess of York in an obviously copulatory position, showing only their fashionable contrasting shoes
Fashionable contrasts
The bum shop
An extra-ordinary beauty
The inconvenience of dress
A further degree of perfection
The female frizzler
We have the exhibition to examine
High-change in Bond street
Walking sticks and round-a-bouts
The worst of short petticoats
A change in the petticoats
Dandies in rotten row
A hint to the ladies
A desert – Imitation of modern fashion
Six stages of mending a face
A fashionable lady in dress & undress
A dandy put to his last chemisette
Dandies dressing
Lady Godina’s rout
Ladies dress, as it soon will be
The beau monde
Macassar oil
Fashions for summer
Eccentrics – moths-great and small
An exquisite
Sixteen feet in profile

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