Dress

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

"There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients," declared Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prophet and propagandist for Neoclassicism. New democracies, with their idealism, were vehemently and visibly expressed in quotidian form in statuary-emulating dress.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art