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| Georges Lepape Les Choses de Paul Poiret (fashion plate) 1911 collotype and pochoir Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Stephen Shore Aiken, South Carolina (To Worship . . . Wear A Hat) 1972 C-print Tate Gallery |
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| Kenneth Hayes Miller Leaving the Shop (complacent consumption) 1929 etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Gordon Coster Woman in Cloche speaking to Judge (staged fashion shot) ca. 1935 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| James Gillray And Catch the Living Manners as they Rise (satirical cartoon) 1794 hand-colored etching Morgan Library, New York |
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| Matthew Darly The Optic Curls, or, The Obliging Head-Dress (satirical cartoon) 1777 engraving Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jason Brooks Designs by John Galliano for Dior (fashion illustration for British Elle) 1998 digital print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Jean-Louis Forain Head of a Woman with a Veil ca. 1878-80 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena |
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| Isaac Cruikshank Monstrosities of 1827 (satirical cartoon) 1827 hand-colored etching Yale Center for British Art |
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| Robert Burns Woman and Child (Aesthetic Movement) ca. 1910 watercolor Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Wenceslaus Hollar Head of Woman (bonnet design) 1645 etching Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Madeleine Wallis Fashion Design for Paquin (in-house sketch) 1920 drawing, with watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| George Du Maurier Women and their Garments artistically described (modello for wood-engraved cartoon in Punch) 1874 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Howard Tangye Emma Gale, Standing (fashion illustration) ca. 2000 drawing, with watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Louis Hersent Portrait of Sophie Crouzet (partisan of the Revolution in Neoclassical garb) ca. 1801 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Matthew Darly The Extravaganza (satirical cartoon) 1776 engraving Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
from An Essay on Man: Epistle I
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,
Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
– Alexander Pope (1733)