"Lookin' as handsome as the law allows."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1908.

"He was about the most highly developed specimen of the middle-aged dude I had ever set eyes on."  From English Illustrated, 1894.

You've heard of real photograhers taking photos of ghosts, but here's a real model "posing in his best clothes for imaginary photographs."  From Harper's magazine, 1917.

A World War I-era postcard by Arthur Thiele.

"What may develop if the hobble skirt continues in populatity."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

Here's a precursor to the "tinfoil hats" of those shielding against mind control by governmental or paranormal forces.  In 1920s England, tinfoil hats were a fashion statement.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

"Experience with a garment."  From The [Washington, D.C.] Morning Times, 1895.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1885.

"Jeune Moine a la Grecque" (Young Monk in the Greek Style) by Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot: an etching from Mascarade a la Grecque, 1771.

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.