Plaster figures showing women’s bodies as they would have appeared had they fit into Western clothing during four points in fashion history (1875, 1904, 1913, and the 1920s), designed by Bernard Rudofsky and sculpted by Costantino Nivola, as presented in the exhibition Are Clothes Modern? at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

In Rudofsky’s words: “Our civilization keeps alive the fascination for monsters and, at the same time expresses disdain for the normally built human body. The female figure is redesigned from time to time, like furniture or automobile bodies.”