Practice of dressing in a manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex

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Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Engraving.

C. Rittfar wearing Edwardian style dress.

A boy enjoying wearing female clothing. Colour process print, ca. 1919.

Sailors preparing for a concert party performance. Coloured process print after H. Gervise, 191-.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.

A man wearing a kimono posing from behind a screen.

A Scotsman and his female companion swap his kilt and her trousers after going to the public baths. Colour process print after BF, 195-.

A cross-dressing man in a top hat; representing effeminate fashions for men. Colour process print, ca. 1910.

Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by T. Chambers after R. Cosway, 1787.

A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

Total transformation.

Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

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Transvestism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Transvestism

Works from the collections

A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

Total transformation.

Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

Transvestism

Images from the collections

Images referencing Transvestism

Works from the collections

A man in drag, wearing a large hat and veil, posing in a garden.

Total transformation.

Sex life of a transvestite / by Larry Maddock (as told to him by Leonard Wheeler).

Tales of the maid : volume two / edited by Francoise Quesnay.

A man wearing a white dress at "Jays concert party".

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