EditorialA dress designed by Stephen Sprouse for Kate Moss to wear in MTV’s 1996 “Choose or Lose” voting campaign at the exhibit “Stephen Sprouse: Rock, Art, Fashion,” at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, July 13, 2022. (Cheney Orr/The New York Times)
EditorialMan in formal wear with long-tailed jacket over striped trousers and man in double-breasted suit with wide lapels. Color printed fashion plate by W. A. Richards from the winter catalogue of Superchic, London, 1929.
EditorialBodice, 18th century, European, silk, metal thread, At the court of France, ladies were expected to be in full court dress for all formal occasions. A dame du palais or femme de chambre who waited on the queen was required to wear full court dress at a...
EditorialPolish costumes, 18th century: Polish Jew 1, Polish man in formal wear 2, woman 3, and man in regular clothes 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Fl...
EditorialTow men in kimonos, Edo period, 1800-1825. They wear traditional dress and zori sandals. They have formal hairstyles with shaved areas. The painting comes from a group of 17 works in an unusual Western-influenced style and were probably intended for ex...
EditorialWomen at a fashionable party in formal evening wear. One wears an evening cape in velvet and crepe, the other a formal coat in blue velvet with silver embroidery. Handcolored pochoir (stencil) lithograph from the French luxury fashion magazine Art, Gou...
EditorialMen in smoking and formal wear at a chic party from the 1920s. Man in smoking suit with wide lapels offering a cigarette to another man in formal wear with black bow tie. Color printed fashion plate by W. A. Richards from the winter catalogue of Superc...
EditorialBoutique owner Kimberly Moster, left, directs two of her clients, in formal wear from the boutique, where to stand for a social media post to alert customers that they are allowed in the store in West Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Jessica Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialAndrea Rahal, who represented Michigan in the Miss Muslimah USA pageant, prepares for the formal wear segment backstage in Dearborn, Mich., July 18, 2019. (Farah Al Qasimi/The New York Times)
EditorialBoutique owner Kimberly Moster, left, directs two of her clients, in formal wear from the boutique, where to stand for a social media post to alert customers that they are allowed in the store in West Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Jessica Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialTow men in kimonos, Edo period, 1800-1825. They wear traditional dress and zori sandals. They have formal hairstyles with shaved areas. The painting comes from a group of 17 works in an unusual Western-influenced style and were probably intended for ex...
EditorialBodice, 18th century, European, silk, metal thread, At the court of France, ladies were expected to be in full court dress for all formal occasions. A dame du palais or femme de chambre who waited on the queen was required to wear full court dress at a...
EditorialWomen at a fashionable party in formal evening wear. One wears an evening cape in velvet and crepe, the other a formal coat in blue velvet with silver embroidery. Handcolored pochoir (stencil) lithograph from the French luxury fashion magazine Art, Gou...
EditorialPolish costumes, 18th century: Polish Jew 1, Polish man in formal wear 2, woman 3, and man in regular clothes 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Fl...
EditorialMan in formal wear with long-tailed jacket over striped trousers and man in double-breasted suit with wide lapels. Color printed fashion plate by W. A. Richards from the winter catalogue of Superchic, London, 1929.
EditorialMen in smoking and formal wear at a chic party from the 1920s. Man in smoking suit with wide lapels offering a cigarette to another man in formal wear with black bow tie. Color printed fashion plate by W. A. Richards from the winter catalogue of Superc...
EditorialTow men in kimonos, Edo period, 1800-1825. They wear traditional dress and zori sandals. They have formal hairstyles with shaved areas. The painting comes from a group of 17 works in an unusual Western-influenced style and were probably intended for ex...