Then, as now, it wasn’t the fashion designs that were the problem but the (lack of) taste of the people who actually wore the clothes they saw in fashion periodicals. In a portrait group by Arthur Hughes, a mother is shown leading a musical quartet with her three daughters. Each young woman is identically – and Aesthetically – dressed, in what was clearly the remnants of the same green velvet curtain. If all four are guilty of crimes against fashion, the artist who painted this terrible picture should be had up for offences against art.