Constraints Collection

Landscape Mist Edo period 1615-1868 mid-19th century
Artokoloro

Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks
531375 Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks. Attached to stocks is the pillory post with constraints for the arms

A portly lady is laced into her corset by her maid Date: 1921

Women and Girls in Rational Dress, 1882
Engraving showing a group of women in types of Rational Dress, shown at the Exhibition of Hygienic Costume, 1882. In the 1880s the Dress Reform Movement

Suffragette Chicken as New Woman. A chicken dressed as a New Woman in tweed suit, hat, spats, carrying a walking stick and smoking

Women Preparing Sashimi Edo period 1615-1868
Artokoloro

Man, looking as if he has been in a drunken brawl, serving his sentence in the village stocks. Attached to stocks is the pillory post with constraints for the arms. Lithograph London 1834

Inconvenient Costume / C18
THE INCONVENIENCE OF DRESS A lady ably demonstrates that the constraints of fashion can lead to constraints on the ability to eat ones supper

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Amidst the Edo period's (1615-1868) intricate landscape, contrasting realities unfold. A portly lady, bound by the constraints of her corset, is laced in by her maid – a daily ritual of beauty and pain. Fast forward to the mid-19th century, where women's fashion shifted with the Rational Dress Movement, freeing them from restrictive garments. Yet, symbolically, the Suffragette Chicken, embodying the New Woman, remained caged. Meanwhile, in the same era, women skillfully prepared sashimi, their nimble hands unhindered by constraints. Elsewhere, a man, punished for his misdeeds, serves his sentence in the village stocks – a stark reminder of societal constraints. Through time, the human spirit persists, adapting to, and challenging, the confines that shape our existence.