Livery

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The magnifience and stateliness of livery were no mere detail of eighteenth- or ninteenth-century life: the staff visually reflected the standards of style of the household.

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