Day dress, 1867–69. Piña cloth (a traditional Philippine fiber made from pineapple leaves) and silk. The MET.

The Bellelli Family, by French painter Edgar Degas (1858-69). Musée d'Orsay.

Chair, 1867–69. The MET.

Day dress, 1885. Museu del Disseny.

Parasol, 1915-29. The MET.

Breakfast Time, by Swedish painter Hanna Hirsch-Pauli (1887). Nationalmuseum.

Day dress, 1900. Fashion Museum, Bath.

Wedding dress, 1868. Cincinnati Art Museum.

La Pia de' Tolomei, by English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1868-80). Spencer Museum of Art.

Corset, 1868. FIDM Museum.

Silver brooch, partly gilded, with numerous filigree pendants, Norway, 1867. Victoria & Albert Museum.

Portrait of Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan Carolina Otero, best known as La Belle Otero. Photographed by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, 1890.

Cage crinoline, 1868. Victoria and Albert Museum.

Pompeii, A.D. 79, by Irish painter Alfred Elmore (1878). Yale Center for British Art.

Evening dress, 1848. The MET.

Women fencing in the University of Iowa. Photographed the 22nd November 1890. University Reporter in the Frederick Kent Collection of Photographs, University of Iowa Archives.

Bonnet by Mrs. B. E. Hastings, 1867. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Balcony, by French painter Edouard Manet (1868-69). Musée d'Orsay.