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[18] From the 1550s, middle- and upper-class European women could choose between the still popular rigid farthingale style or a looser-style gown known as a ropa

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Simple, black, nun-like garments were seen as a gesture of humility, says Jessica Regan, assistant curator at the Met who, along with chief curator Harold Koda, put the exhibition together