Getting started -- Early, unstructured garments -- Cut and shaped to fit : the Gothic period -- The height of artificial silhouette -- The men return to softness... -- ...While the women remain tightly corseted -- Introduction of tailoring to the man's costume -- Variety of silhouette in eighteenth-century women's costumes -- Neoclassical elegance -- Revolutionary menswear -- Romantic womenswear -- The Victorian gentleman -- The Victorian lady.