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Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

A portrait of Elizabeth Howard, Lady Southwell (c.1564 – 1646), an English Elizabethan lady wearing a farthingale dress with its distinctive protruding waist created by a padded roll and inserted wooden hoops. By an unknown artist c. 1600...

Gold dress fastener from Clones, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

Arapaho dress made from tanned leather, silk ribbon, and glass beads, c. 1940. Joe Grandee Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City.

A representation of a Seneca woman in traditional dress from the 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Cheyenne beaded hide dress c. 1920. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

A representation of a Seneca man in traditional dress, illustration from 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Warning: See the definitions of Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Kingdoms before reading this article, otherwise the following lines could give you serious headaches! A lack of information is a common problem for historians of the Greco-Bactrian...

Gold collection found near New Ross, Co. Waterford, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

This bronze statuette was part of a matching pair of statuettes found in the region of Alexandria, Egypt and dates to the mid-late 1st Century BCE. The statuette portrays a boy in Eastern garb, possibly a prince or deity. The precise identity...