The Breadth of Fashion, 5th Avenue – Life in New York
After Thomas B. Worth American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This fashion satire makes fun of exaggerated city fashions, showing a gentleman wearing a narrow coat with wide sleeves amused by a woman with a huge hoop skirt walking along the pavement. Three smaller figures at right have wide garments echoing those of the woman. A boy wears a triangular shaped coat, a girl has a wide short skirt over pantalettes with extended lace trim, and a small man smoking a cigar has a coat with a wide hem over slim striped trousers. The disparity in the scale of these three figures is not explained. A ballerina doll wearing a wide tutu stands in the window of the house behind the figures.
