Understand some key notions of men’s and women’s clothing usage through the collections of the Auguste Jacquet Museum and objects from the loan of some regional museums.
The exhibition is a staging allowing an approach of the practices around the court clothing and the everyday clothes, from Gallo-Roman antiquity, until the 19th century. This chronological journey will allow you to measure the extent to which clothing-related practices carry social and cultural values and meanings. "The habit does not make the monk," said the proverb. Often, however, it allows to decode the profession of the person who carries it, its function, its social role, or even a particular moment in his life.