The Cultural Review

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A man in exaggerated 18th-century fashion challenges societal norms of race, gender, and class in Georgian London.
Fashion

How Do Fashion Choices Reflect Cultural Identity and Societal Values?

In 18th-century London, a manumitted enslaved person named Julius Soubise deliberately exaggerated flamboyant clothing, creating a startlingly feminized dandyism that destabilized established categori

Eleanor Voss·May 5, 2026