One of these was fashion. During the Romantic era, for example, one could spot a revolutionary from the way his beard was trimmed. In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku ...

With her latest exhibition, “Fashion and Interiors: A Gendered Affair” at MoMu — Fashion Museum Antwerp, Romy Cockx shows how modern Western consumer standards in the second half of the 19th century ...