Media Review

摘要

On the third floor of the in Toronto, an enormous grey poster catches your attention. A gentleman, dressed smartly in a three-piece suit with a velvet jacket and lining, clutching a beaver top hat, stands and stares into the distance. Next to him is a frail woman with a weary expression, seated on a wooden chair, with her hands rested on the frills of her gown. A bonnet tied with a large ribbon covers her spiralled curls. These are the fashion victims of the nineteenth century: their pleasures of dress and style nearly indistinguishable from the perils of their fabrics and refined figures.