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Fashion Caricatures
Fashion caricatures are a type of images used since the 17th century in order to criticise contemporary fashions, morals, gender roles or other societal and political conditions. Besides their satirical function and exaggerating way of depicting bodies and clothing styles fashion caricatures are important sources of information on dress history and different cultural discourses. While ridiculing fashionable figures fashion caricatures have been regarded as highly entertaining and even attractive as they show fashion in its most distinctive features.