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."

"The Worst of Wilde.  'The worst of you, Oscar,' said one stead and stolidly, jolly bank holiday, every-day young reporter, 'the worst of you is, you won't cut your hair.  Now, if you did, you might look like— This; or, with whiskers, thus; or, with a beard, thusly; or thusabouts.  But you won't, and that's what worries us so!"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1882.

Photo courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archives.

From The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England by John Ashton, 1890.

Two plates stuck together, from the Australian National Maritime Museum’s William Hall collection.

Here's the Queen of the 25 of Spades, c. 1905, scanned by the National Library of Ireland.