This Saturday the 21st of October the “undressed” exhibit premiered at the Frick and will run until January 7, 2018. Upon first walking in the exhibit appears to inhabit one room, but in reality it spans about a third of the Frick Art Gallery. Beginning with European and colonial underwear fashions from the 18th century, the exhibit winds its way through the 19th century, to the dynamic 1900’s and ends in the present. The exhibit is informative about the development of underwear and its ultimate shift to practicality. For women especially underwear has drastically changed, having started with multiple layers of long clothing and physically damaging corsets, which at one time in the 1920’s reduced one’s waist to 19 in. Even through the early 1900’s most women were expected to “keep their figure” and wear maternity corsets, which damaged and moved the placement of one’s internal organs when worn regularly. Interestingly most men’s underwear is bought online or in packages, so the visual advertising is most important. This also means that male beauty standards can be easily seen by looking at packaging and ad’s through history. The “undressed” exhibit shows the evolution of underwear, but more importantly highlights the fact that underwear has been a fashion piece from its birth through the present.