Men in Lace: The Fashionable Swagger. The 18th-century nostalgia for ornate ‘Vandyke’ dress by Oliver Garnett

Self-portrait in masquerade-dress by Richard Cosway (1742-1821), c.1770, Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (The National Trust), © National Trust Images/John Hammond

A look at the fashion among male sitters in the eighteenth century. See National Trust’s online Arts, Buildings, Collections Bulletin July 2010.