Monstrosities of 1821 [print] / G. Cruikshank invt & fect.

Print shows a promenade in one of the London parks, displaying exaggerated fashions. Both for men and women, the distinctive feature is a waist no longer high but wasp-like, and (for women and occasionally for men) smaller than the neck. Bonnets are huge and feather-trimmed. Skirts are bell-shaped, and reach to the ground, with horizontal rows of trimming at or near the hem. The men wear strapped trousers, full at the hips, with spurred boots; collars are still high. Top-hats are more extravagant: bell-shaped and high-crowned, brims either flat or much contorted. One man wears riding breeches and carries a switch; the tops of his boots are buttoned. A Grenadier Guards officer in a gigantic bearskin and long gaiters walks arm-in-arm with a lady; they talk to a dandy whose arm is held by a boy who is a small replica of himself, dressed in exactly the same way. One dandy (left) wears a greatcoat of shaggy light fur or fur-fabric. A trotting poodle, extravagantly curled and clipped, burlesques the promenaders.