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A mask is worn over part or all of the face, frequently to disguise the wearer, but sometimes to protect the face. Masks are often worn for pleasure to disguise the wearer at fancy dress parties, masked balls, during Halloween or other festivals, or as part of an artistic performance. They may also be worn by criminals to prevent recognition or ...
San Francisco society women wearing face masks during the "Spanish Influenza" pandemic, October 1918. Cartoon depicting holiday shoppers during the 1918 flu pandemic. Post-war summer afternoon dresses show the barrel shape and lowered waists that would characterize the styles of the early 1920s. Vogue, late June 1919.
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity was an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York that ran from May 5 to August 15, 2010. This exhibition explored the evolution of the modern woman's image from the 1890s to the 1940s in the United States.
See Mask for a fuller list of masks. Balaclava (helmet) or ski mask; Battoulah; Bongrace – a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan; Boushiya; Burqa, also burka, burga, burqua; Diving mask; Full-face diving mask; Gas mask; Orthodontic facemask
The portrait of an unknown girl in the traditional Russian clothing by Ivan Argunov, 1784, showcasing a large kokoshnik head dress.. The kokoshnik (Russian: коко́шник, IPA: [kɐˈkoʂnʲɪk]) is a traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
Belle's ball gown, golden dress originally worn by the heroine of Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991) The dress, a photograph of a dress that became a viral phenomenon due to dispute over the color of the garment; TechHaus Volantis, American electric-powered hover vehicle promoted by Lady Gaga as a "flying dress"
A woman wearing a visard, as engraved by Abraham de Bruyn in 1581. A woman wearing a moretta muta appears in this 1751 painting by Pietro Longhi. A visard, also known as a vizard, is an oval mask of black velvet which was worn by travelling women in the early modern period to protect their skin from sunburn. [1]