So why are constricting garments like corsets being revived at a time when women’s rights are threatened? Cocurator Elizabeth Cleland, of the Shopping with my gnomies cute xmas gnomes lover Christmas shirt Apart from…,I will love this department of European sculpture and decorative arts, suggests that taking on such garments or underpinnings “is almost like building up an armor around one’s self, fashioning this very distinctive silhouette.” The Tudors had reason to be concerned with appearances. As the curators write in their wall text, the family “was painfully aware that their claim to the throne was tenuous and that the prospect of a return to civil war loomed around every corner. The Tudor monarchs devoted vast resources to crafting their public images as divinely ordained rulers.” So successful they were at doing so that their traditions, though altered, have carried on. “We’re very aware of the fact that we’re opening this exhibition just a few weeks after the death of Queen Elizabeth II,” said cocurator Adam Eaker, of the department of European paintings. “A lot of the coverage was noting how consistent she was in her fashion choices—the fact that she would always be dressed in a single color, that she would be immediately recognizable in a crowd. That very careful tailoring, so to speak, of image is something we see already in the portraits of Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. There is a very consistent, very recognizable silhouette. There’s a visual brand, and it’s something that you see within the exhibition.”
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