With more than 400 pieces of clothing and accessories, portraits, caricatures and small objects, the exhibition explores the taking of freedom and violations of dress standards, codes and moral values.
Feminine trousers, men's skirts, women's tuxedos, miniskirts, baggy pants, blue jeans or hoodies that have become emblematic, these garments have all marked a break, provoking virulent criticism and even bans when they appear.
Because they were too short or too long, too fitted or too loose, too immodest or too covering, too feminine for the man or too masculine for the woman, these garments transgressed the established order.
An exciting exhibition, a light but not so trivial look at the codes, values and taboos of Western society.
Proper attire required, when the garment causes a scandal
Until April 23
Museum of Decorative Arts
107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Tel:01 44 55 57 50
