Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century explores two sides of nineteenth-century fashion: the beautiful clothing and shoes worn by the fashionable men and women of the period and the processes and chemicals that made those same fashions potentially deadly. Origin Studios designed the exhibition using visually contrasting spaces to illustrate the dual nature of nineteenth-century fashion. The public face is warm, inviting, luxurious, and invokes the era through the repetition of distinctive decorative forms and visual culture. The production story, on the other hand, is presented through stark and restrained exhibitry, physically separate from the luxurious presentation of public fashion, and includes the tools of the trades as well as the sensible worker’s shoes.