Costumes in Art

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Or, to be more precise: about men that didn't mind women being fashionable but, moreover, liked them for that.
Before the invention of photography or even fashion plates the differences between fashion and art were rather blurred. Works of masters like Titian, Dürer, Holbein or Rubens serve today as beautiful pieces of art but also as a great source for historical reconstruction to costumers and reconstructors. Many of them took so much care about details that almost every stitch can be distinguished on the clothes of their models.
Then it was art, but as soon as first fashion magazines appeared, the artists who took so much care about their models' clothes had to suffer their work being proclaimed as "kitsch". That was especially the case of, for instance, James Tissot, a great analyser of late Victorian fashion, but also the author of allegorical works with an enormous talent.
	Today, we can be grateful to all those artists who obviously admired clothes, texture of textiles and cuts as much as they admired their models' faces because withouth their works, what could have we known today about historical clothing before the invention of photography?
Here, I will introduce you to some of these artists and their special contribution to the costuming and history of clothing.
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Aesthetics, with a special reference to Rossetti and Klimt Preraphaelites