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Unknown Maker, French

Bulletin of Fashion

Maker

Unknown Maker, French

Culture

French

Title

Bulletin of Fashion

Year

1853

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

engraving

Dimensions

28.6 x 37.8 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Digeon Imp. r, Galande 65, Paris, May 1853.Issued from Merchant Tailors' Exchange Rooms, by Thomas L. Willimas-No. 383, Broadway, New York.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

44.632

Type

Exhibition History

Artist, Rebel, Dandy
Men of Fashion
Apr 26, 2013 – Aug 18, 2013

Label copy

This plate from the trade journal Bulletin of Fashion illustrates men's fashions from the mid-19th century. This period is often understood as the "great masculine renunciation," as codified by psychologist J. C. Flugel in his 1932 text The Psychology of Clothes. Modern scholarship and research has revealed that while many men were lost in a sea of black suits, there were others, like those idealized in this fashion plate, who continued to relish the personal choice and liberty of dress.

Image use

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Unknown Maker, French
Bulletin of Fashion, 1853
engraving
28.6 x 37.8 cm (11 1/4 x 14 7/8 inches)
Museum Works of Art Fund 44.632

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