Here's a dress made of salad, from Punch, 1878.  "See, there's endive, and lettuce, and spring onions, and radishes, and beetroot."  Nothing wanting, except "perhaps a little more dressing, my dear!"

From Punch, 1867.

Given the "fake news" controversies, how can one tell if a newspaper dress is a designer imposter?  From Mocca, 1932.

You've seen Boy George's frocks made of tabloid headlines about him.  Here's a precursor: a postcard by Arthur Thiele, date uncertain.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1875.

"A seated woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon." Coloured line block by Robé, c. 1909.

Living made easy with a revolving hat with eye-glass, cigar, scent box, spectacles and hearing trumpet, from 1830.

Fans of David Lynch will recognize this precursor to his character of the Lady in the Radiator.  From Popular Mechanics, 1921.

Here's a precursor to Wendy Walker's sublime novel The Secret Service, in which spies discover a Tibetan technique to transform themselves into inanimate objects.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1874.

"A suitable accessory," from "A Gossip from Bookland," Cassell's, 1893.

Here's the just-out-of-bed look of 1905, from Die Muskete.

"A woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon looking at herself in a full-length mirror."  Coloured line block by Robé, c. 1909.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1887.

She Walks in Battledress.

From Fun magazine, 1864.

"H. Th. Wijdeveld. Ontwerp voor een badmuts, 1932."

"Adrian Rathbun and John Gzowski comparing socks in Deseronto, Ontario, 1909."