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Butch drag in the builders’ caff

Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.

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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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Fashion for an unruly body

One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.

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Doctors and the English seaside

Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.

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  • A white doctor vaccinating African girls all wearing European clothes at a mission station. Process print by Meisenbach after a photograph.
  • Men and women are buying and selling clothes, hats and shoes at a market. Process print (?) by A.S. Boyd.
  • A salesman in a clothes shop invites a customer to 'walk this way'; the customer finds his way of walking too effeminate.. Colour process print, 194-.
  • A salesman in a clothes shop invites a customer to 'walk this way'; the customer finds his way of walking too effeminate.. Colour process print, 194-.
  • Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.
  • A woman is standing next to a bowl of soapy water, a basket of clothes and a packet of washing powder are nearby; advertising Chipso washing soap. Colour process print and letterpress, 1930.
  • A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.
  • A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.
  • Six types of press: cheese, wine (two), printing, clothes, and rolling. Engraving.
  • A man engaged in block printing a piece of cloth. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
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