Fashion and Beauty Tour of the Metropolitan Museum

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Guided * Indoor * 2 Hours

Learn about the conception of beauty and fashion as reflected in art throughout history, and the ways it changed over time.

Discover how social and political events shaped fashion as well as the painful and bizarre things people did to look pretty, from the wigs at Versailles court and hundred years of corsets, to cosmetic powders and plucked hairlines.

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