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| Richard Gray Fashion Illustration for BodyMap ca. 1990 drawing, with added gouache Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Alphonse de Neuville Two Young Men of Fashion ca. 1860 drawing Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Corinne Day Fashion Shot for The Face Magazine, London ca. 1992 gelatin silver print Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Nicolas Bonnart Homme en Robe de Chambre 1676 hand-colored engraving Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Anonymous French Artist Figure costumed as Hercules ca. 1539 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Portrait of a Man in a Chaperon ca. 1440-50 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| David Williams Portrait of dancer Michael Clark 1989 gelatin silver print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anthony Crickmay The Railroad Photographs 1992 poster Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Allen & Ginter's Cigarettes Greece (series, Natives in Costumes) 1886 lithograph (trade card) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| The Face Magazine, London Nirvana - In the Court of King Kurt 1993 lithograph (promotional poster) Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Howard Tangye Wes Gordon with Blue Scarf (fashion illustration) ca. 2000 drawing, with watercolor Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Richard Kilroy Fashion Illustration for Homme Style Magazine (design by Thierry Mugler) ca. 2012 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| John Savage Prince Giolo Son to ye King of Moangis or Gilolo ca. 1690-1700 etching and engraving British Museum |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Smutty 1982 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Egon Schiele Self Portrait 1914 drawing, with added gouache Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Wilhelm von Gloeden Young Man's Head crowned with Leaves ca. 1895 albumen silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art |
"In contrast to "clothing," fashion often functions as a gendered concept, which is inextricably linked to women and feminity, and only occasionally extended to young and/or gay men. In everyday discourse, men are somewhat excluded from active engagement with fashion, and their role in it is often reduced to passive observers of female engagement with it. In contrast, Reilley and Cosbey (2008) comment that, historically, menswear more than womenswear "has been decorative, impractical, erotic, changeable, revolutionary, idealistic, oppressive and restrictive, subject to strict protocols, and laden with meanings."
– Ania Sadkowska [et al] in Clothing Cultures (vol. 4, no. 3), 2017