A new exhibition of satirical prints at Brighton Museum shows the birth of the high fashion industry.
They show that there was as much attention to showy dressing 200 years ago by fops and their followers as there is today.
These beaus and belles are shown having a ball but to observers then and now, its comic to see a Dandy at a Beano.
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