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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria

A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.

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  • A man in a loin cloth and belt walks, carrying a rifle with fixed bayonet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A Chinese figure, seated, wearing brown ragged clothes and a belt of oak leaves. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, holding a rifle in his right hand, raises it, angled behind his head and lowers it again. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, lies on the ground on his front and takes aim. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand, transfers it to his left then holds it at an angle across his torso. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt stands to attention, a rifle in his right hand: he grasps it with his left, raises then lowers it, resting the butt on the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in loin cloth and belt transfers a rifle from his left to his right hand, holds it out in front of him, raises it to his right shoulder and stands to attention. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A man in a loin cloth and belt carries a rifle in his right hand at hip height, holds it in front of him as he falls backwards on to the ground, his left hand holding his head. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Makers of leather belts at work in their workshop. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • All in search of health should wear Electropathic Belt.
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