'The Desire For Beauty', National Museum, Prolonged Until 20 August

We might ask whether, or in what way Western fashion trends affected Hungarian clothing customs. According to memoirs, the new fashion had done irreversible damage to the taste, customs, traditions and language.

With the help of the exhibited objects, we would like to give a more diverse picture of these changes. While the most fashionable fabrics were even purchased by the wealthy bourgeois, the extremities of the foreign, new trend, the so-called "náj módi", did not convince Hungarian lords and ladies. Moreover, they even preserved some characteristics of their traditional clothing until the end of the century."

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